Bill Text - SB446 (2020)

Relative to airport fees for transportation network companies.


Revision: Dec. 19, 2019, 9:51 a.m.

SB 446  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-3025

10/01

 

SENATE BILL 446

 

AN ACT relative to airport fees for transportation network companies.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows an airport to charge a fee to transportation network companies which is not greater than motor carrier or taxicab charges.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-3025

10/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to airport fees for transportation network companies.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Transportation Network Company; Airport Charges.  Amend RSA 376-A:17 to read as follows:

376-A:17  Controlling Authority.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, TNCs and TNC drivers are governed exclusively by this chapter and any rules by the department of safety consistent with this chapter.  No municipality or other local entity may impose a tax on, or require a license for, a TNC, a TNC driver, or a vehicle used by a TNC driver where such tax or licenses relates to providing prearranged rides, or subject a TNC to the municipality's or other local entity's rate, entry, operational, or other requirements, except that an airport that is federally obligated may charge a TNC fee, as may be amended from time to time, which is not greater than a fee applied to a taxicab service.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.