Politics
Bill targeting ride-sharing services gets hearing today
Uber and Lyft ride-sharing services are popular with young professionals.
A bill that critics worry would cripple ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft gets its first hearing in a House committee today.
House Bill 907 by Rep. Alan Powell, R-Hartwell, will be before Public Safety Committee, which is chaired by Powell.
The bill is designed to force Uber and Lyft, two up-and-coming services popular with urban dwellers and young professionals, to comply with many of the same regulations hoisted upon taxi and limo firms, to include safety and insurance requirements.
But Uber and Lyft and their social-media-savvy users, have charged that Powell is trying to quash a new wave of business that threatens an outdated, inefficient, entrenched legacy industry.
Return to MyAJC.com later today for more on the hearing. Meanwhile, read more on the issue from the AJC Opinion writers.
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