Dear Friend,

Over the past few weeks during Legislative recess I have enjoyed being back home, meeting with constituents and community leaders, and spending some quality time with friends and family. But I am ready to get back to work! As we look to the final month of this legislative session, I am excited to push our bills through their final committees and onto the Governor's desk. We have a lot to get done in the final weeks of session which ends on August 31, but I am hopeful that we will be able to advance legislation to help address the biggest issues impacting our region and our state.

My district staff has also been hard at work planning town halls and community events. I hope to see you at some of these events soon!

Sincerely,

Scott Wiener
Senator

While we may have been on recess, the work did not stop. I have been having constructive conversations with my colleagues, and am thrilled that we will be returning key protections back into SB 822 to restore Obama-era net neutrality standards in California.

From left: Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Senator Kevin De Leon, Senator Scott Wiener, and Assemblymember Miguel Santiago hold press conference on SB 822

In addition to net neutrality, I am proud of bills I'm authoring to address our mental health and homelessness crisis which we are seeing every day on our streets. These include SB 918, The Homeless Youth Act of 2018, which will bring some much needed structure and funding to help end the moral failing that is our state's youth homelessness crisis. I'm also authoring SB 1004, which will ensure that counties improve how they spend existing funding for mental health prevention and early intervention programs, particularly for our young people, so we can use effective programs to get people healthy before they develop long-term mental health problems and end up homeless. Finally, I'm authoring SB 1045, which creates a new conservatorship for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. This will help our public health officials reach the people who are dying on our streets but who cannot help themselves.

We are also advancing other legislation that will address our severe housing shortage, improve our investment in renewable energy, and help reform our criminal justice system. I look forward to doing the work to get these bills across the finish line.  

Town Hall with Senator Scott Wiener:

Date: Saturday, August 4, 2018

Time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Location:
The Village
1099 Sunnydale Ave
San Francisco, CA 94134

Please join me at a town hall to learn about the 2018 California legislative agenda, ask questions, and share your priorities. Refreshments will be provided.

Please be aware that this event has limited capacity. To attend please RSVP by calling (415) 557-1300 or visiting http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/events

Chinatown Town Hall with Senator Scott Wiener:

Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018

Time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Location:
City College of SF Chinatown/North Beach Center
808 Kearny St
Room 402, multi-purpose room (Bamboo Room)
San Francisco, CA 94108

Please join me at a town hall to learn about the 2018 California legislative agenda, ask questions, and share your priorities. Refreshments will be provided.

Please be aware that this event has limited capacity. To attend please RSVP by calling (415) 557-1300

Joe Airone & The Sweatleaf Collective     

The Sweetleaf Collective was started in 1996 in San Francisco by Joe Airone to provide free medicinal cannabis to people living with HIV/AIDS. With just five patients at first, Sweetleaf has continued to expand along, and is now able to provide free medical cannabis to more than 150 low-income, terminally-ill individuals in and around San Francisco. Beyond providing the medicinal cannabis to no cost to their patients, Sweetleaf also understands that many of their patients struggle with mobility due to their illnesses and delivers medicine directly to them.

Joe Airone has been a Bay Area activist for over twenty years now. He regularly works to provide the elderly, sick, and homeless, with food, medical resources, and shelter. Prior to starting the Sweetleaf Collective, Joe ran a community arts center in the Mission District of San Francisco. The center has helped create a place of freedom and expression where artists, musicians, and performers could showcase their work for free.  Joe also founded a Humanitarian Circus that travels all over the world to put on shows for refugees and orphans in war zones and developing countries.

Joe Airone and The Sweetleaf Collective are working closely with my office on Senate Bill 829, the Compassion Care Bill. If passed, SB 829 will exempt compassion care licensees, who are providing medical cannabis to low income patients, from paying the state cannabis cultivation tax.

Senator Wiener speaks at the Laidley Street's 4th of July Celebration

Senator Wiener celebrates 4th of July with San Francisco Mayor London Breed

Senator Wiener with Precious Peck at the reopening of the Walter Haas Dog Park

Senator Wiener with Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu at the Families Belong Together Rally in San Francisco

Senator Wiener honored as the Housing Champion of the Year by Silicon Valley at Home

Senator Wiener was honored as the Legislator of the Year by the California Sexual Assault Investigators Association