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
Category Archives: ride share
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…
Lege Trend. Taxing Ride Share
State: Georgia
The proposed tax on ride share: 4 cent state sales tax on ride share + local governments can add their own sales tax
WTOC 11 | Proposed tax could bring changes ride-sharing apps like Uber, Lyft
+1 City Says no to Fingerprinting for Ride Share.
Chicago will soon release recommendations from a special commission that will not recommend federal fingerprint checks of ride share drivers.
Chicago Business Journal | Uber, Lyft drivers won’t be fingerprinted, alderman says
+1 State for Statewide Fingerprinting of Ride Share. 3 Pieces of Intel.
the State: Rhode Island
the Status of statewide ride share laws: Statewide laws passed in 2016
The impetus for the added statewide requirement for fingerprinting:
- Its from the brain of the State Attorney General
- The Attorney General wants nationwide criminal background checks that include fingerprinting for all drivers- ride share and taxis alike
- Taxis support the requirement
- Ride Share Company Uber does not
Rhode Island via San Louis Obispo Tribune | Attorney general wants Uber, Lyft…
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
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
TREND. Regulating Ride Share Aloha Style. Taxi Argument.
State: Hawaii
Taxi industry is pushing for legislation to require: ride shar edrivers to display the excise tax certificate that Taxis must display.
What’s behind this excise tax certificate push? Taxis claim ride share companies do not pay the state’s excise tax like they do
Other issues at play: Whether drivers pay the excise tax
Hawaii Now | Taxi companies accuse Uber, Lyft of not paying millions in excise taxes
36th State Passes Statewide Ride Share Regs. 4 Key Points.
The 36th state to pass statewide ride share regulations: New Jersey
The statewide ride share regulations in New Jersey:
- insurance coverage standards of $1.5 million in commercial insurance per ride
- mandatory background checks by the ride share company with disclosures and approval by to the state attorney general
- To balance the needs of the limoisine industry it cut insurance requirements when no passanger is present and expempting rides from the sales tax
- $25,000 permit fee for companies
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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%