INTERIM Lege Trend: Ride Share Meets Moving Companies. Roadblock from TXDMV.

Why is TxDMV warning move-share companies? TxDMV is warning Texas based move share comapnies that they may be in violation of state law requiring the licensing of “anyone moving household goods in a pick-up truck for hire

Are we talking civil violations or criminal penalties? Both, including, criminal penalties

Why do we care? Remember hair braiding in 2015? Criminalizing people who are trying to earn a living in a free market does not go over well in the Texas Legislature’s current…

INTERIM Lege Trend: Ride Share moves to Initiative and Referendum In Texas

Why are we seeing Initiative and Referndum in Texas for Ride Share? Finger print requirements for ride share drivers sparked a move toward the traditional California mechanism of intitiative and referendum

What group is pushing this? Ridesharing Works for Austin, supported by TechNet

Statesman | Uber, Lyft support ballot initiative on Austin’s ride-hailing rules

 

INTERIM Lege Trend: Transportation Sales Tax. Funding Ideas from the Land of Cheese.

Where is this legislative movement happening?  It is a bipartisan transportation plan in Wisconsin

Did Republicans or Democrats come up with this idea? Republicans

What stumbling blocks do they have? Convincing collegues it is not a tax increase

How do they counter this? By focusing on the local vote requirement.

What does the legislation allow?

  • Allow counties, with voter approval in a referendum, to impose a half-cent sales tax
  • Sales tax revenue is then distributed to local…