How this site works

What counts as one of his bills

A bill is counted when Scott Wiener is the primary author of the bill's final version and it is a Senate Bill (SB). This covers the 2017-18 through 2025-26 sessions: 214 bills in total.

• Bills he only coauthored are not counted.
• Resolutions and constitutional amendments are not counted. Their numbers are in the counts table.
• Special-session bills are counted with the regular session they belong to.

What the status labels mean

Every bill has exactly one final outcome, taken from its official history. Each session has ended, so these outcomes will not change.

Became law  108 bills

The bill was given a chapter number in the state's statutes.

Vetoed  19 bills

The Legislature passed the bill and the Governor vetoed it. Bill pages show the veto message word for word when one was filed.

Didn't pass  87 bills

The bill did not reach the Governor before the session ended. Each one shows how far it got and its last meaningful step.

How far it got

• Stopped in the Senate: 46
• Passed Senate, stopped in Assembly: 40
• Passed Legislature, not sent to Governor: 1

Last meaningful step

• Held in Appropriations (suspense file): 36
• Did not advance before a deadline: 27
• Held in committee: 9
• Moved to the inactive file: 6
• Failed a committee vote: 5
• Failed a floor vote: 4

"Held in Appropriations (suspense file)" means the committee that reviews costs held the bill and did not send it on. "Did not advance before a deadline" means the history shows no final vote or hold; the bill stopped moving and the session's deadlines passed.

Issues

Each bill is tagged with one to three issues, so the counts below can add up to more than the total. "San Francisco & Bay Area" is added on top of a bill's main topic when the bill is specifically about the region.

• Housing · 30 bills · 16 became law
  Zoning, housing approvals and streamlining, housing elements, housing finance, homelessness housing, and environmental review (CEQA) when the project is housing.
• Transit & transportation · 16 bills · 10 became law
  Public transit funding and operations, streets and bike/pedestrian safety, highways, bridges, high-speed rail, parking, vehicle rules, and CEQA exemptions for transportation projects.
• Health care · 36 bills · 19 became law
  Health insurance coverage, prescription drug and insulin costs, pharmacy benefits, Medi-Cal, health care financing, and medical research.
• LGBTQ rights & HIV · 18 bills · 15 became law
  HIV prevention and criminal law, gender-affirming care, gender and name changes, sexual orientation and gender identity data, and other LGBTQ-specific protections.
• Mental health & drug policy · 19 bills · 7 became law
  Mental health services, conservatorship, substance use treatment, overdose prevention, and psychedelics policy.
• Criminal justice & courts · 40 bills · 21 became law
  Crimes and sentencing, policing, sex offender registration, juries, evidence, habeas corpus, incarceration, and firearms.
• Climate, energy & environment · 31 bills · 9 became law
  Climate disclosure, clean energy, solar and heat pumps, the electric grid, utilities, water, recycling, oceans, wildfire, and pollution cleanup.
• Technology & AI · 7 bills · 3 became law
  Artificial intelligence, internet and net neutrality, data privacy and surveillance technology, and online platforms.
• Consumer protection · 9 bills · 4 became law
  Protections for buyers and the public against business practices, including arbitration, online marketplaces, unfair competition, and product safety (including animal testing).
• Workers & safety net · 16 bills · 8 became law
  Wages and worker protections, freelancers, apprenticeships, lactation accommodation, CalFresh, CalWORKs, foster care, and aid to low-income people.
• Civil rights & immigration · 7 bills · 4 became law
  Civil rights enforcement, immigrants' rights and services, protections against federal actions, and democratic process (elections, ballot measures).
• Nightlife, alcohol & cannabis · 15 bills · 8 became law
  Alcohol licensing and hours, music venues and entertainment zones, and cannabis rules.
• State budget · 17 bills · 8 became law
  Budget Acts and budget bills (Wiener has chaired the Senate Budget Committee).
• San Francisco & Bay Area · 16 bills · 10 became law
  Bills written specifically for San Francisco or the Bay Area (for example SF piers, SF redevelopment debt, Bay Area transit funding measures). Use in addition to the bill's topic issue.

How the plain-language summaries are written

Text labeled Plain-language summary (the headline, one-line description and short summary) is written by AI agents, then checked by a separate AI agent.

• One source. Writers use only the bill's official Legislative Counsel's Digest and title for its final version. They do not use news coverage or other sources.
• Checked separately. A different AI agent compares every summary with the digest and checks length limits and neutral wording. A summary that fails is rewritten once; if it still fails, a person reviews it.
• Neutral wording. Summaries say what a bill does, not whether it is good or bad. Words that praise or criticize are not allowed.
• Facts come from official data. Dates, status, chapter numbers and laws changed come straight from the Legislature's database, not from the AI-written text.

Each bill page also shows the official digest word for word, labeled Official summary · Legislative Counsel's Digest, so you can compare.

Sources and updates

All facts come from the California Legislature's official downloadable database: the per-session “pubinfo” archives at downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. Each bill page links to its official page on leginfo.legislature.ca.gov for votes, versions and committee analyses.

Data as of Oct. 23, 2026. This site is a one-time snapshot. It does not update automatically; it changes only when someone re-runs the build by hand.

Download the full list: bills.csv · bills.json

What these numbers don't show

• Budget and committee bills. Budget bills, budget “trailer” bills and other bills authored by the Senate Budget Committee are counted only when Wiener is listed as the primary author.
• Work beyond authoring. Bill counts don't measure negotiating, amending other members' bills, or stopping bills.
• Shared leads. When he is a joint lead author but another senator is the primary author, the bill is not counted. Bills he introduced but whose final version listed someone else as primary author would also be left out; there were none in this data.
• Rewritten bills (“gut and amend”). California bills are sometimes emptied and rewritten on a new topic. Summaries describe the final version; when the topic changed, a note says what the bill was originally about.
• Ideas that moved. A bill that didn't pass may have been reintroduced or folded into another bill. Each bill is counted on its own.

Counts by session

* Includes 4 bills from a 2025-26 special session.

Resolutions and constitutional amendments (not counted)

He was also primary author of these other measure types. They are not bills and are not in the totals above.

SCA = Senate Constitutional Amendment · SCR = Senate Concurrent Resolution · SJR = Senate Joint Resolution · SR = Senate Resolution