{"id":563,"date":"2016-08-07T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/08\/07\/interim-sharing-economy-new-statewide-rules-from-the-east\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T00:19:00","slug":"interim-sharing-economy-new-statewide-rules-from-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/interim-sharing-economy-new-statewide-rules-from-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM. Sharing Economy. New Statewide Rules from the East."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state legislature passed new statewide ride share rules?<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What fee does it levy?<\/strong>\u00a020-cent per ride surcharge to fund state\u00a0infrastructure improvements<\/p>\n<p><strong>What requirements are placed on ride-share companies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>insurance thresholds<\/li>\n<li>two-step background check for drivers<\/li>\n<li>no fingerprinting requirements<\/li>\n<li>decals on ride share cars will be mandatory<\/li>\n<li>cars will be required to pay commercial toll fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What state agency will regulate ride share?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Department of Public Utilities funded\u00a0by a surcharge on revenues earned by ride share companies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there something for taxis in the bill?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, 10 cents of the 20 cent surcharge will fund grant for taxi technology and workforce development<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/news\/20160801\/legislature-agrees-to-new-rules-for-ride-hailing-companies\">Patriot Ledger |\u00a0Legislature agrees to new rules for ride-hailing companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state legislature passed new statewide ride share rules?<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What fee does it levy?<\/strong>\u00a020-cent per ride surcharge to fund state\u00a0infrastructure improvements<\/p>\n<p><strong>What requirements are placed on ride-share companies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>insurance thresholds<\/li>\n<li>two-step background check for drivers<\/li>\n<li>no fingerprinting requirements<\/li>\n<li>decals on ride share cars will be mandatory<\/li>\n<li>cars will be required to pay commercial toll fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What state agency will regulate ride share?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Department of Public Utilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}