The effect, the repeal’s proponents argue, is less competition for city contracts.
Deriding it as “performative,” San Francisco Supervisors voted Tuesday to walk back part of its law that prohibits The City from doing business with companies based in states that discriminate against the LGBTQ community, restrict abortion rights, or adopt voter suppression laws.
Supervisor Ahsha Safai, who sponsored the legislation, noted city contractors will still have to abide by its nondiscrimination laws following Chapter 12X’s partial repeal. He argued the repeal would increase competition, lower prices, and improve the quality of public works projects in San Francisco.
A separate proposal, sponsored by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, would repeal all of Chapter 12X in the City’s Administrative code, including the city-funded travel prohibition. Despite its relative economic heft as a City, San Francisco’s laws proved incapable of deterring a litany of states from passing laws that target LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups.
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