SEC. 3. TRANSIT BENEFITS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FOR 
THE 
USE 
OF 
DIGITAL 
TRANSPORTATION 
COMPANIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—During the period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act and ending on December 
31, 2018, any agency that has a program, including a pro-
gram established under section 7905 of title 5, United 
States Code, or Executive Order 13150 (April 21, 2000; 
65 Fed. Reg. 24613), to provide transit benefits to em-
ployees of the agency shall provide transit benefits to em-
ployees who use the services of any digital transportation 
company within the Washington Metropolitan Area in the 
same manner as such agency provides transit benefits to 
employees who use public transportation services within 
the Washington Metropolitan Area. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) ELECTION.—Unless otherwise statutorily 
authorized, an employee may receive transit benefits 
under this section only if the employee agrees in 
writing to not accept any other transit or parking 
benefit offered by the head of any agency with a 
transit benefit program while receiving the transit 
benefits under this section. 
(2) LIMITATION.—The amount of the transit 
benefit provided to an employee under this section 
during any month for the use of services provided by 
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any digital transportation company may not exceed 
the amount of the monthly average transit benefit 
received by the employee during the 6-month period 
immediately preceding the month during which an 
election is made under paragraph (1). 
(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—Transit benefits under 
this section shall be provided in a manner substan-
tially similar to the manner in which transit benefits 
are provided to employees who use mass transpor-
tation services. The head of any agency with a tran-
sit benefit program may consult with any digital 
transportation company and any other head of any 
agency with a transit benefit program to establish 
the procedures necessary to provide transit benefits 
under this section. 
(4) SUBSTANTIATION.—The head of any agency 
with a transit benefit program, the Secretary of the 
Department of Transportation, and the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall, in connection with the establish-
ment of a process for implementing the transit ben-
efit for any digital transportation company, work 
with any such digital transportation company in es-
tablishing a process to substantiate the use of tran-
sit benefits by Federal employees using the benefit 
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for services provided by a digital transportation com-
pany each month. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Washington Metropolitan Area’’ 
means the District of Columbia; Montgomery, Prince 
George’s, Frederick, and Charles Counties in Mary-
land; Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince Wil-
liam Counties in Virginia; and all cities now or here-
after existing in Maryland or Virginia within the ge-
ographic area bounded by the outer boundaries of 
the combined area of said counties; 
(2) the term ‘‘digital transportation company’’ 
means any transportation network company or car- 
sharing service; 
(3) the term ‘‘car-sharing service’’ means a 
membership or non-membership based service pri-
marily designed for shorter time or shorter distance 
trips where individuals are charged per mile or per 
hour, or both, for vehicle usage; and 
(4) the term ‘‘transportation network company’’ 
means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietor-
ship, or other entity that uses a digital network to 
connect riders to drivers affiliated with the entity in 
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order for a driver to provide transportation services 
to a rider. 
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