Senate Bill 233 prohibits the arrest of people involved in sex work when they come forward as a witness or victim of a specified violent and serious crime
February 11, 2019
San Francisco – Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced legislation to protect sex workers from arrest when they report a serious and violent crime or come forward as a witness to a violent crime. These crimes include, for example, sexual assault, human trafficking, stalking, robbery, assault, kidnapping, threats, blackmail, extortion, and burglary. Separately, Senate Bill 233 ensures that the possession of condoms may not be used as probable cause to arrest someone for sex work.
Assembly Bill 362—Authored by Assemblymember Eggman and co-authored by Senator Wiener— creates a 3-year pilot program allowing San Francisco to implement supervised drug consumption programs, otherwise known as safe injection sites
February 4, 2019
San Francisco—Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) made the following statement upon the reintroduction of legislation, authored by Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and co-authored by Senator Wiener, to authorize a safe injection site pilot program in San Francisco:
SB 201 ensures that people born with atypical genital characteristics have the right to provide informed consent before undergoing potentially harmful genital surgery.
February 4, 2019
San Francisco–Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and a coalition of civil rights, intersex, healthcare, and LGBT advocates announced legislation to ensure intersex babies - “intersex” being a term used for people born with variations in their sex characteristics, including genitalia - can provide informed consent before undergoing medically unnecessary surgeries that can effectively assign them a gender (before they can decide for themselves) and that can irreversibly harm them.
California League of Conservation Voters, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California & Habitat for Humanity endorse SB 50
January 31, 2019
San Francisco – Today, the California League of Conservation Voters, the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), and Habitat for Humanity announced their support for Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50, the More HOMES Act. NPH - which is a coalition of 750 affordable housing organizations - also signed on as a co-sponsor of SB 50, joining co-sponsor California YIMBY.
