Category Archives: local government

What does a ride share bill look like in a state where no ride share operates? Clean Slate.

State :  Alaska

Legislation: Senate Bill 14 and House Bill 132

What do these bills do?

  • exempt drivers from state workers comp laws
  • state regulation, with no local regulation, for ride share
  • insurance while drivers are driving ride share passengers
  • require zero tolerance policies for drigs and alcohol for drivers
  • liability insurance requirements
  • local and national criminal background check for drivers

Who are the supporters, besides ride share?

  • American insurance association
  • National…

Lege Trend. Taxi Drivers in a Mountain State Want Ride Share to Do 5 things.

Taxi Drivers in Colorado Springs want ride share comapnies and their drivers to do the following:

  • Driver license fee of $97
  • background check
  • subject ride share to the same working hour restrictions as taxi drivers
  • same physical examinations that cab drivers have to undergo to drive
  • same geographic limitations for each (currently taxis have limitations but ride share does not)

Why do the taxi drivers want these 5 items? Taxi drivers say it is for parity. That they have to do these things…

Lege Trend. Only the Key Info. Silver State Ride Share Bill.

State: Nevada

What does the bill do?

  • quarterly reporting of the number of independent contractor drivers
  • $200 state business registration for their drivers
  • makes the ride share companies enforce the driver business registration requirement

Nevada Senate Bill 226 (2017)

Las Vegas Review Journal | Nevada Legislature pushing rideshare companies to ensure compliance with state law

R Street Institute. 5 Reasons to Stop Imposing Specific Background Checks on Ride Share.

  • Its a misconception that fingerprinting makes the taxi industry safer
    • its like all all sqaures are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares
  • Academic research doesn’t show an increase in crime since ride share become a thing
  • There’s data that indicates that crime went down among taxi drivers once ride share began.
    • the competition cleaned up the taxi drivers
  • Ride share drivers and passengers are tracked by GPS, that makes for one dumb criminal
  • The federal background check system is…

Millennials on State Wide Ride Share Laws. 5 Points to be Informed.

A millennial writing in the Daily Texan has this to say about SB 113, statewide ride share laws:

  • takes away power from the city government
  • overturns existing city regulations
  • overturns “common-sensical safety regulations”
  • this is about helping the big companies at the expense of small ride share companies
  • “favor degradingly lower cuts” for ride share drivers

Daily Texan | SB 113 ignores public to make way for Uber and Lyft

Texas SB 113 (2017)

Local Trend. Alcohol Related Accidents Decline from Ride Share. + Read the related Bill

City: Jacksonville, FL

The decline in crash and arrest statistics noticeable decrease in alcohol crimes:

  • DWI arrests decined by 25%
  • Alcohol related crashes declined by 14%

Are there other reasons for the decline? Maybe. There’s no way to determine what is the cause of the decline nor is there a way to determine that ride share didn’t cause the decline.

Touted in the Jacksonville, FL article: Florida’s SB 340 establishing a statewide regulatory structure for ride share

First Coast News ABC…

Emerging Trend. Swap State Fleets for Ride Share. 3 Key Points.

The State: Arizona

The legislative proposal: 

  • Swap 20% of the state fleet for ride share or contract with companies to manage the service
  • Creates a pilot program for state workers to use rental cars, fleet management services, ride hailing services or private-public partnerships

​Has the legislator had success with cutting government vehicle costs? Yes, as a city council member in Chandler, AZ he cut the city vehicle use costs by 22%

Arizona House Bill 2440 (2017)

5 Points. Limiting Pedestrian Deaths from the Mother Country,

The mother country, Sweden, is your go-to way to lower pedestiran deaths, and here’s what American cities are looking to emulate:

  • Sweden began Vision Zero to lower pedestrian deaths in 1997
  • Focus first on rural roads by building 3 lane roads, with a middle lane used for passing only.
  • Build separated bike lanes
  • Lower speed limits
  • Create pedestrian-only zones

Governing | The Swedish-Inspired Way American Cities Are Trying to End Pedestrian Deaths