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Disability advocates press lawmakers to impose fines on rideshare drivers who refuse service animals
Summary
Dozens of service-animal users, disability advocates and legal organizations told a joint legislative committee that H.2066 is needed because current complaint processes are slow and company policies have not stopped frequent refusals by Uber and Lyft drivers; witnesses urged statutory fines and simpler enforcement.
A broad coalition of service-animal users, disability advocates and legal groups urged the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to advance H.2066, a bill that would impose civil fines on transportation-network-company drivers who deny rides to riders with legitimate service animals.
Katarina Torres Radicek, a community organizer at the Boston Center for Independent Living, said the bill would authorize fines (first-offense and escalating penalties) to deter drivers from refusing rides to people who use service animals. “This bill will enable…
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