PRINTER'S NO. 525
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 539
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, KEARNEY, FONTANA, COLLETT AND KANE,
APRIL 2, 2025
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
APRIL 2, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Titles 53 (Municipalities Generally) and 66 (Public
2 Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in
3 transportation network companies, further providing for
4 transportation network company drivers; and, in
5 transportation network service, further providing for
6 transportation network company drivers.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 57A12(b)(1) of Title 53 of the
10 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
11 § 57A12. Transportation network company drivers.
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13 (b) Driver qualification requirements.--
14 (1) No transportation network company shall engage any
15 person as a transportation network company driver unless the
16 transportation network company ascertains that the person:
17 (i) possesses and has possessed a valid State
18 driver's license or a valid driver's license of another
19 state, district or territory of the United States for at
 1 least one year prior to applying to become a
2 transportation network company driver;
3 (ii) is at least 21 years of age;
4 (iii) has not had more than three moving violations
5 or a major violation in the immediately preceding three-
6 year period; [and]
7 (iv) has not had a limousine or taxi driver
8 certificate suspended or revoked by the authority due to
9 a regulatory violation within the five years immediately
10 preceding his application to be a transportation network
11 company driver. The authority shall make a list of all
12 the drivers available to a transportation network company
13 upon request. The suspension or revocation of a license
14 by the authority because a driver was operating as a
15 transportation network company driver prior to the
16 effective date of this section shall not constitute
17 grounds for disqualification under this subsection[.];
18 and
19 (v) is a resident of Pennsylvania.
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21 Section 2. Section 2605(b) of Title 66 is amended by adding
22 a paragraph to read:
23 § 2605. Transportation network company drivers.
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25 (b) Requirements for transportation network company
26 drivers.--A transportation network company driver must:
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28 (3.1) For purposes of providing prearranged rides
29 originating within this Commonwealth, be a resident of
30 Pennsylvania.
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2 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0525: 53-57, 53-12(b)(1)