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California Sen. Scott Wiener speaks about student housing during a news conference at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. On Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, the state Assembly voted to fast-track low-income housing on surplus land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions. If the bill becomes law, it will rezone land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions to allow for affordable housing and help the projects bypass local permitting and environmental review process. (AP Photo/Janie Har, File)

California lawmakers vote to fast-track low-income housing on churches’ lands

By Trân Nguyên and Sophie Austin - Associated Press

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, addresses the state Senate at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Wiener is introducing, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 a bill that would allow children ages 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents consent. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Preteens may be vaxed without parents under California bill

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2018, file photo, state Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, talks during a Senate session in Sacramento, Calif. The Assembly Public Safety Committee approved Weiner's measure decriminalizing psychedelic substances, Tuesday June 29, 2021, after he amended his bill to remove a substance from the measure that opponents said can be used as a date-rape drug. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California moves toward decriminalizing psychedelic drugs, ‘social sharing’

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

California stalls bill banning intersex surgery for children

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Sen. Wiener has introduced legislation that would ban certain medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with ambiguous or conflicting genitalia. The first-of-its-kind legislation would not allow these types of surgeries until the child is at least 6-years-old. A similar bill failed to pass last year after facing opposition from the California Medical Association. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California bill would ban intersex surgery for young kids

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

California could decriminalize psychedelic drugs

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California state Sen. Scott Wiener announces he will introduce legislation to take over Pacific Gas &amp; Electric at a rally in San Francisco Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. The legislation is aimed at transforming the nation's largest electric utility into a publicly-owned company. Wiener said the bill would involve a public takeover of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric and its sprawling network of power lines that have been blamed for starting catastrophic wildfires that have killed dozens of people and caused billions of dollars in damage. (AP Photo/Janie Har)

California bill seeks takeover of nation’s largest utility

By JANIE HAR and ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday March 17, 2014 file photo Assembly Speaker-elect Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, leaves the Assembly after she was elected to the position at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Atkins pledged Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, that the state Legislature would pass a housing production bill this year. Atkins' comments came moments after the Senate failed to pass an ambitious housing bill. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

After failure, California leaders vow to pass housing bill

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

California aids sex workers who report crimes, use condoms

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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric vehicles are parked at the PG&amp;E Oakland Service Center in Oakland, Calif. As Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Corp. faces bankruptcy following billions of dollars in claims from catastrophic wildfires, some cities are exploring buying pieces of the utility's assets to run parts of the power system on their own. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

California cities say bill harms plans for public utilities

By ANDREW OXFORD - Associated Press

California bill would limit genitalia surgery for children

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2017 file photo, State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco works at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Sen. Scott Wiener has been pushing legislation to revive regulations repealed last year by the Federal Communications Commission that prevented internet companies from exercising more control over what people watch and see over the internet. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Net neutrality backers fume as California bill watered down

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, left, talks with Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. At a news conference, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, Wiener discussed his bill to make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV. If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, Wiener's bill would repeal laws passed at the height of the AID's epidemic that he says unfairly punishes HIV-positive people based on outdated science. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,file)

California lawmakers want to repeal HIV criminalization laws

By SOPHIA BOLLAG - Associated Press

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San Francisco supervisor to propose soda tax: ‘It’s not a nanny state at all’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Inside Politics: Myanmar grants nuclear concession

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