Airport Worker Health Care Requirements

At a glance

What: Ordinance revising the Healthy Airport Ordinance to change, from January 1, 2027 (or the effective date, if later), the minimum health care expenditures contractors must provide for certain airport workers, paired with a $0 settlement of the Airlines for America lawsuit against the City.
Where it stands: Both items finally passed on the consent agenda October 6, 2026, 11-0.
Next: Done. The settlement is contingent on the enactment of the amending ordinance, after which the airline group will dismiss its suit.

File No. 260874 (Labor and Employment Code amendment, sponsor Mandelman) and File No. 260930 (settlement of Airlines for America v. City and County of San Francisco, filed March 31, 2021, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, a federal preemption and constitutional challenge).
Settlement: $0 and non-monetary terms; each side pays its own costs; the suit is dismissed once the amendments are enacted.
First reading September 29: 11-0. Final passage October 6: 11-0.

Consent agenda; both FINALLY PASSED, 11-0.

Government Audit and Oversight report; both PASSED ON FIRST READING, 11-0.