SACRAMENTO – The Senate and Assembly have reached an agreement to preserve acupuncture as a covered Medi-Cal benefit. As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) worked with the Legislative API Caucus, including Assemblymembers Phil Ting and Evan Low, and community leaders to protect this important benefit.
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SACRAMENTO – The Senate passed Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) and Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) Senate Bill 1031, the Connect Bay Area Act. SB 1031 authorizes a Bay Area ballot measure to provide transportation funding on the 2026 ballot or later, and require operational reforms and a consolidation assessment beginning next year.
SACRAMENTO – The Senate passed Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) Senate Bill 905, which eliminates the “locked door loophole,” a senseless barrier to holding auto burglars accountable. SB 905 is part of the Senate’s Safer California Plan, a bipartisan legislative effort to address the fentanyl crisis and combat retail theft and community-based crime.
SACRAMENTO – The Senate passed SB 1047 by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which aims to ensure the safe development of large-scale artificial intelligence systems by establishing clear, predictable, common-sense safety standards for developers of the largest and most power