BILL NUMBER: AB 1360	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 5401 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to charter-party carriers of passengers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1360, as introduced, Ting. Charter-party carriers of
passengers: individual fare exemption.
   The Passenger Charter-Party Carriers' Act generally requires
charges for transportation to be offered or afforded by a
charter-party carrier of passengers to be computed and assessed on a
vehicle mileage or time-of-use basis, rather than on an
individual-fare basis, subject to certain exemptions.
   This bill would also exempt from these provisions a rideshare
program operated by a transportation network company that arranges a
ride among multiple passengers who share the ride in whole or in
part, provided that the fare for each passenger is less than the fare
that would be charged to a single passenger traveling alone.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5401 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   5401.  Charges for the transportation to be offered or afforded by
a charter-party carrier of passengers shall be computed and assessed
on a vehicle mileage or time of use basis, or on a combination
thereof. These charges may vary in accordance with the passenger
capacity of the vehicle, or the size of the group to be transported.
However, no charter-party carrier of passengers shall, directly or
through an agent or otherwise, nor shall any broker, 
contract, agree, or arrange to charge, or demand or receive
compensation,   contract for, agree to, or demand or
receive compensation in an amount, or arrange to charge an amount,
 for the transportation offered or  afforded 
 afforded,  that shall be  computed, charged, or
assessed   computed  on an individual-fare basis,
except  schoolbus   as follows: 
    (a)     Schoolbus  contractors who are
compensated by parents of children attending public, private, or
parochial  schools and except operators  
schools. 
    (b)     Operators  of round-trip
sightseeing tour services conducted under a certificate subject to
Section 5371.1, or a permit issued pursuant to subdivision (c) of
Section 5384. 
   (c) A rideshare program operated by a transportation network
company subject to this chapter that arranges a ride among multiple
passengers who share the ride in whole or in part, provided that the
individual fare for each passenger is less than the fare that would
be charged for the same ride to a single passenger traveling alone.