{"id":608132,"date":"2017-04-19T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608132"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:17:27","slug":"texas-house-oks-statewide-ride-hailing-rules-defying-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608132","title":{"rendered":"Texas House OKs Statewide Ride Hailing Rules, Defying Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/Chris-Paddie.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/Chris-Paddie-114x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-608133\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Texas House has voted to create statewide regulations for ride-hailing companies, potentially voiding a local Austin ordinance that caused Uber and Lyft to stop operating in the state capital. The bill by Chris Paddie, a Republican from Marshall, brings ride-hailing companies under Texas regulators&#8217; control while requiring them to pay state fees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Opponents tried to block the bill using House procedural rules and debate stretched on for hours, but it passed Wednesday 110-37. A final, largely formulaic vote Thursday sends it to the Texas Senate. Paddie said the bill wasn&#8217;t just about Uber or Austin, though that company left the city last May, after local voters endorsed an ordinance requiring drivers to be fingerprinted as part of background checks. Paddie&#8217;s bill requires annual background checks, but not fingerprinting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Texas House has voted to create statewide regulations for ride-hailing companies, potentially voiding a local Austin ordinance that caused Uber and Lyft to stop operating in the state capital. The bill by Chris Paddie, a Republican from Marshall, brings ride-hailing companies under Texas regulators&#8217; control while requiring them to pay state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas House OKs Statewide Ride Hailing Rules, Defying Austin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":608133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 18:37:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608134,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608132\/revisions\/608134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/608133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}