2019 Highlights
TIMELINE OF 2019
JANUARY
Starting off the year at the Women's March! This year Senator Wiener authored women’s rights legislation, including SB 142, which requires employers to provide suitable lactation spaces.
FEBRUARY
Senator Wiener celebrates Lunar New Year! Our Lunar New Year Party was one of four events we hosted in our office this year.
MARCH
Senator Wiener joins a press conference for Senator Pan’s vaccine legislation, one of the numerous bills he co-authored this session.
APRIL
Senator Wiener passed PrEP access legislation along with HIV-prevention advocates, pictured here in his capitol office just before a hearing on the bill.
MAY
Senator Wiener attended the California Dem Convention where he and housing supporters advocated for SB 50, his groundbreaking housing legislation.
JUNE
Senator Wiener announces SB 288, legislation to allow immigrants to run for Democratic party positions., part of Senator Wiener’s broader efforts to oppose restrictive and racist immigration policies.
JULY
Senator Wiener works to pass SB 127, his CalTrans safety bill, with the assistance of key witness, Moses, a Berkeley 5th grader.
AUGUST
Senator Wiener celebrates with San Francisco advocates who pass SB 233, one of several criminal justice reforms our office passed this year.
SEPTEMBER
Senator Wiener joins Speaker Pelosi for the launch of AIDS 2020. He was instrumental in piloting the budget ask that will allow AIDS 2020 to return to San Francisco.
OCTOBER
Senator Wiener hosts his annual Pumpkin Carving Contest in Noe Valley. Our office also hosted three town halls across the city in 2019.
NOVEMBER
Senator Wiener spent Trans Day of Remembrance at San Quentin State Prison. Senator Wiener is working on SB 132, which will allow incarcerated transgender people to be housed according to their gender identity.
DECEMBER
Senator Wiener lights the menorah at the Hayes Valley Channukah Street Festival.