Lege Trend: Treating Ride Share Drivers Like Taxi Drivers

A legislative move in California is seeking to level the playing field between ride share drivers and taxi drivers. The bill died in committee last session. 

This sessions’s Assembly Bill 24 “requires amateur drivers to submit to drug and alcohol testing, undergo criminal background checks overseen by the California Department of Justice and enroll in a Department of Motor Vehicles program alerting employers after DUI arrests.”