{"id":1577,"date":"2020-02-05T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2020-02-06T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:47:18","slug":"red-state-scooter-legislation-100-local-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/red-state-scooter-legislation-100-local-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Red State + Scooter Legislation = 100% Local Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where: Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/en-US\/display\/20192020\/SB\/159\">SB 159 (2020 | GA)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The bill will give exclusive regulatory control over scooters to local governments<\/li><li>Adds a definition of scooter to the State Transportation Code<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did Republican supporters say? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;We didn\u2019t want to overregulate the industry&#8221;<\/li><li>\u201cWe want to encourage more development of this kind of technology.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was it a surprise? yes, the bill that moved last session was a bill that preempted local regulation of scooters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routefifty.com\/management\/2020\/02\/leaving-scooter-regulation-local-government\/162876\/\">Route Fifty | Leaving Scooter Regulation to Local Government<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/georgia-senators-are-moving-toward-a-hands-off-approach-on-scooter-rules\/\">WABE | Georgia Senators Are Moving Toward A Hands-Off Approach On Scooter Rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Georgia What: SB 159 (2020 | GA) How: The bill will give exclusive regulatory control over scooters to local governments Adds a definition of scooter to the State Transportation Code What did Republican supporters say? &#8220;We didn\u2019t want to overregulate the industry&#8221; \u201cWe want to encourage more development of this kind of technology.\u201d Was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}