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Panel advances rideshare safety bill after emotional survivor testimony and negotiated changes
Summary
After survivor testimony and hours of debate, the House Business, Labor & Employment Committee voted 11–2 to advance HB 12‑91, a broad rideshare safety bill that calls for strengthened driver identity verification, more reporting to regulators and new consumer protections; sponsors removed fingerprinting and narrowed some requirements during committee amendments.
The Business, Labor & Employment Committee advanced House Bill 12‑91 after hours of testimony and several sponsor amendments. The measure, prompted by multiple survivors’ accounts of assaults they said occurred in rideshare vehicles, would require enhanced identity verification of drivers, increased data reporting to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), account-holder verification for rides involving teens, and other safety-related provisions.
Representative Wilford, the bill’s lead sponsor, described her own assault and said the industry’s voluntary safety measures have not done enough. Survivors and victim-advocacy groups gave emotional…
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