Rules Committee Advances DV Fund Overhaul, Picks New Behavioral Health Commissioners

San Francisco's Rules Committee cleared a domestic violence shelter funding ordinance that had stalled for months over LGBTQ funding concerns, then waded through a competitive ten-applicant field to fill two seats on the Behavioral Health Commission. All three substantive items passed unanimously at the June 15 meeting.

• DV shelter fund ordinance advances after stakeholder compromise preserves LGBTQ-specific funding outside city code, triples codified marriage-license fee to $23

• Two new Behavioral Health Commissioners chosen from 10 applicants — healthcare researcher Raymond Deng shared a personal story of his brother's opioid recovery

• Nightlife industry leader Maria Davis reappointed to Entertainment Commission, citing overdose prevention and anti-drink-spiking work in LGBTQ venues

The basics: File 250720 amends the Administrative Code governing the Domestic Violence Shelter-Based Program Fund. The ordinance does three things: transfers oversight of the fund from the Department on the Status of Women to the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOCD), updates the marriage-license fee earmark from $8 to $23 to match a 2023 state law change, and renames the fund. MOCD has already been managing these grants since completing a procurement process in 2025 — the code simply hadn't caught up.