{"id":163,"date":"2015-04-09T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/09\/big-week-for-ride-share-with-help-from-texas-association-of-business-cab-companies-disagree-on-4-point-disagreement\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:30:00","slug":"big-week-for-ride-share-with-help-from-texas-association-of-business-cab-companies-disagree-on-4-point-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/big-week-for-ride-share-with-help-from-texas-association-of-business-cab-companies-disagree-on-4-point-disagreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Week for Ride Share with Help from Texas Association of Business. Cab Companies Disagree on 4 Point Disagreement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride Share moved from local issue affecting local ordinances in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Houston to a statewide solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2440\">HB\u00a02440<\/a>\u00a0by Repsentative Paddie was heard in House Transportation. Statewide solutions for ride share on the horizon. \u00a0Cab companies testified in opposition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ride share is getting a business advantage; treat all companies the same<\/li>\n<li>Criminal background checks should be the same for all drivers<\/li>\n<li>24\/7 liability coverage or all companies should have the availability of liability insurance only when in service<\/li>\n<li>Random Drug testing for all drivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Association Business President Bill Hammond wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2015\/04\/03\/we-need-a-statewide-solution-for-uber-and-lyft\/\">TribTalk<\/a> about a need for a statewide solution. His points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas supports innovation and technology in Texas<\/li>\n<li>Mothers Against Drunk Driving talk about the benefit of ride share to prevent drunk driving\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Protect Consumers with clear statewide regulation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a less happy note, an uber driver in Houston made headlines, when it was discovered that the driver was a felon, and accused of sexually assaulting a passenger. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Uber-driver-had-federal-drug-conviction-6184061.php\">Houston Chronicle\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride Share moved from local issue affecting local ordinances in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Houston to a statewide solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2440\">HB\u00a02440<\/a>\u00a0by Repsentative Paddie was heard in House Transportation. Statewide solutions for ride share on the horizon. \u00a0Cab companies testified in opposition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ride share is getting a business advantage; treat all companies the same<\/li>\n<li>Crimin&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}