II 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4686 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 30, 2020 
Received 
AN ACT 
To require ride-hailing companies to implement an enhanced 
digital system to verify passengers with their authorized 
ride-hailing vehicles and drivers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as ‘‘Sami’s Law’’. 
SEC. 2. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR RIDE-HAILING VE-
HICLES AND RIDE-HAILING COMPANIES. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS
FOR TNC PLATFORMS.—Not 
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
each transportation network company shall establish and 
implement a system and policy within the transportation 
network company’s TNC platform that shall make avail-
able to each passenger a digital method to verify that the 
driver with whom the passenger has been matched through 
the transportation network company’s TNC platform has 
been authorized by the transportation network company 
to accept the passenger’s trip request prior to the begin-
ning of the trip. Such system shall include— 
(1)(A) an initial notification sent to the pas-
senger’s personal mobile device, or otherwise com-
municated to the passenger, containing verifiable in-
formation specific to the TNC driver or TNC vehicle 
with which the passenger has been matched; 
(B) the ability for the passenger, driver, and 
TNC platform to confirm the verifiable information 
matching the passenger to the authorized TNC driv-
er or TNC vehicle prior to the beginning of the trip; 
(C) a TNC platform restriction on a TNC driv-
er from commencing a trip via the TNC platform 
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until both the passenger and the TNC driver verify 
the other’s identity using the system; and 
(D) a way for a passenger to use a non-visual 
arrangement to verify the TNC driver under the sys-
tem used in accordance with this subparagraph; or 
(2) as an alternative to implementing the sys-
tem required under paragraph (1), a transportation 
network company may implement any successor 
technology-based system that enables verification 
that the driver with whom the passenger has been 
matched through the transportation network com-
pany’s TNC platform has been authorized by the 
transportation network company to accept the pas-
senger’s trip requests received through its digital 
network prior to the beginning of the trip. 
(b) OPT OUT.—A transportation network company 
may offer a passenger an option not to use the system 
that the transportation network company has implemented 
under subsection (a). Any trip completed by a passenger 
who opts not to use the system shall not be a violation 
of this section. 
(c) EXEMPTIONS.—This section shall not apply to 
any trips in which— 
(1) a third party, including any third-party 
business, non-profit, or government entity, facilitates 
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