Scott Wiener served as Chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, represented San Francisco as a commissioner on the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and represented San Francisco as a director on the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District Board.
61 Facts About Scott Wiener
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Scott Wiener was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in southern New Jersey, the son of small business owners.
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Scott Wiener graduated from Washington Township High School, received his bachelor's degree from Duke University, studied in Santiago, Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship, and received his JD degree from Harvard Law School.
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Scott Wiener clerked for Justice Alan B Handler on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
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In 2016, Scott Wiener ran for the 11th Senate District, to succeed termed out Senator Mark Leno.
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Scott Wiener won re-election to his state senate seat in 2020.
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Scott Wiener was re-elected on November 4,2014, on the first round of ranked choice voting, carrying a majority of the vote.
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In 2011, after a string of fires caused by arson in San Francisco's Castro district, Scott Wiener authored legislation allowing residents temporarily displaced by fires or natural disasters to rent other apartments at below-market rates.
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In 2012, Scott Wiener passed legislation promoting the production of student housing while restricting the conversion of existing rental stock to student housing.
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In 2014, Scott Wiener introduced two measures to allow the construction of new in-law units in San Francisco: The first allows units to be built within the Castro neighborhood, and the second allows owners of buildings undergoing seismic retrofit to add in-law units.
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In 2016, Scott Wiener authored legislation to fast-track the approval of affordable housing projects.
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Scott Wiener focused much of his policy work on San Francisco's public transportation.
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Scott Wiener criticized the lack of investment in transit in San Francisco, and advocated for additional funding measures.
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Scott Wiener's proposals included changing the transit-impact development fee and a ballot measure to tie Muni funding to population growth.
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Scott Wiener encouraged increases in the number of taxis in San Francisco and supported expanding access to car-share programs.
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Over his tenure as a Supervisor, Scott Wiener advocated for increased pedestrian safety by advocating against widening streets.
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In 2012, Scott Wiener sponsored controversial legislation banning nudity at un-permitted events, which was eventually passed by the Board.
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In 2013, the Board of Supervisors passed another bill authored by Scott Wiener establishing park hours for San Francisco's parks.
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In 2013, Scott Wiener's legislation establishing guidelines for San Francisco's food truck industry was passed by the Board of Supervisors.
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Scott Wiener authored legislation to have the city government purchase a parking lot on 24th Street and turn it into a public park.
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Scott Wiener was involved in efforts to increase municipal spending on street resurfacing and maintenance of street trees and park trees.
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In 2015, Scott Wiener authored legislation to make San Francisco the first city in the country to require water recycling in new developments.
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Scott Wiener proposed legislation to require each unit in multi-unit buildings have their own water submeters.
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Early in his first term, Scott Wiener requested a study of the economic impacts of entertainment and nightlife, an issue in his first campaign.
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In 2013, Scott Wiener authored legislation to make it easier for businesses to get permits for DJs, and to offer a new permit to allow for live music in plazas.
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In September 2014, in an online essay on the Huffington Post, Scott Wiener revealed that he was taking Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylaxis that reduces the risk of HIV infection.
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Scott Wiener stated that he disclosed his usage of PrEP in an effort to reduce the stigma around taking the HIV prevention medication.
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Scott Wiener cited the need for more awareness and expanding access as other keys for making PrEP successful.
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Scott Wiener worked with David Campos to support ensuring low-cost access to Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV after Wiener revealed his own PrEP use.
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In 2016, Scott Wiener authored first-in-the-country legislation to require fully paid parental leave for new parents after childbirth or adoption, applying to both parents.
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In 2014, Scott Wiener introduced a ballot measure that would have imposed a two cents per ounce tax on the distribution of sodas and other sweetened beverages, and used the money to fund "healthy choices" in San Francisco.
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Scott Wiener serves as the Chair of the Senate Housing Committee in the California State Senate and is a member of the Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, as well as Governance and Finance, Joint Legislative Audit, and Public Safety Committees.
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Scott Wiener is the Assistant Majority Whip and serves as the Chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.
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In 2021, Scott Wiener authored, sponsored, and introduced SB-519, a bill that provides for the decriminalization of psilocybin, DMT, LSD, ibogaine, ketamine, mescaline, and MDMA in the state of California.
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In 2017, Scott Wiener originated three bills centered around HIV and LGBT issues.
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Scott Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 239, which lowered the penalty of exposing someone to HIV without their knowledge and consent from a felony to a misdemeanor.
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Scott Wiener said that the laws had unfairly singled out HIV-positive people.
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Scott Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 179 in 2017, to create a third, non-binary gender option on government documents, which passed in 2018.
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In October 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Scott Wiener's legislation expanding access to HIV-prevention medications PrEP and PEP.
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In 2019 and 2020, Scott Wiener attempted to pass Senate Bill 201, a bill that would have restricted physician and parents' ability to decide to perform reconstructive genital surgery on intersex infants, and would instead require the impacted child be old enough to decide to undergo surgery.
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Scott Wiener re-introduced the bill a second time in January 2021, this time as Senate Bill 225.
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Scott Wiener argued that existing law was discriminatory towards LGBT couples where the partners were just above and below the age of legal consent.
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In 2021, Scott Wiener authored SB 107, a "trans refuge bill" to protect transgender children seeking gender affirming care in California and their families from civil and criminal punishment under other states' laws.
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In 2017, Scott Wiener sponsored two bills that expanded solar and renewable energy use in California.
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In 2018, Scott Wiener authored Senate Bill 822 which enacted net neutrality protections.
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In 2019, Scott Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 27, which would have required presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to be eligible to appear on a California primary ballot.
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In 2019, Senator Scott Wiener authored Senate Bill 127, which would increase the amount of revenue from the state's new gas tax that could be directed to bike lanes or pedestrian improvements from $100 million to $1 billion.
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In 2019, Scott Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 378, which would have imposed a 40 percent estate tax in California for estates over $3.5 million, or $7 million for a married couple, until the federal estate tax threshold is reached.
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In 2017, Scott Wiener authored SB 35 which will require the cities that have fallen behind on their state housing production goals to streamline approval of new housing.
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Scott Wiener introduced the bill as part of a housing package, along with bills to make it easier to build farmworker housing and to improve local accountability to build new housing.
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In 2019, Scott Wiener introduced SB 50, a follow-up to Senate Bill 827.
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In 2020, in a fourth failed attempt at passing a statewide upzoning bill, Senator Scott Wiener introduced legislation that would allow 2 to 4 unit apartment buildings on single-family lots throughout California, depending on a city's size.
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Scott Wiener was the co-author of a fifth failed upzoning bill in 2020, Senate Bill 1120, which would have required the approval of duplexes proposed on any single family lot in California.
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In 2021, Scott Wiener successfully authored and co-authored several housing bills.
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Scott Wiener authored Senate Bill 10 and Senate Bill 478, and he co-authored Senate Bill 9 as well.
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In 2022, Scott Wiener proposed legislation that would exempt the UC, CSU and community college systems from the lengthy California Environmental Quality Act review process.
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Senator Mark Leno, Scott Wiener's predecessor, had attempted to pass a similar bill.
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In January 2021, Scott Wiener introduced SB 252, the Bear Protection Act.
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In 2015, Scott Wiener was robbed of his cell phone on the corner of 16th and Valencia in San Francisco.
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Scott Wiener negotiated with the would-be thieves and got them to agree to accept $200 for the return of his phone.
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In June 2022, Scott Wiener was the victim of a false bomb threat, reportedly due to his work on behalf of LGBT community.