Title: Transportation Network Companies

Summary: Provides limitation on certain fees charged by airports or seaports; prohibits certain airports & seaports from removing, degrading, or impeding access to certain services, benefits, or infrastructure.

Full Text:
An act relating to transportation network companies; amending s. 627.748, F.S.; providing a limitation on certain fees charged by airports or seaports; prohibiting certain airports and seaports from removing, degrading, or impeding access to certain services, benefits, or infrastructure; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (17) of section 627.748, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 627.748 Transportation network companies.-(17) PREEMPTION.-(b)1. This subsection does not prohibit an airport or seaport from charging reasonable pickup fees consiste nt with any pickup fees charged to taxicab companies at that airport or seaport for their use of the airport's or seaport's facilities,provided such fees do not exceed $2 per ride, or prohibit the airport or seaport from designating locations for staging, pickup, and other similar operations at the airport or seaport. 2. An airport or a seaport imposing a pickup fee as authorized by subparagraph 1. may not intentionally remove, degrade, or otherwise impede access to any service, benefit, or HB 2022 infrastructur e, including, but not limited to, staging lots, curb access, and driver rest facilities, made available to a TNC before January 1, 2021. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.