Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 696
       
       
        
       By Senator Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       8-00803A-22                                            2022696__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to transportation network companies;
    3         amending s. 627.748, F.S.; providing a limitation on
    4         certain fees charged by airports or seaports;
    5         prohibiting certain airports and seaports from
    6         removing, degrading, or impeding access to certain
    7         services, benefits, or infrastructure; providing an
    8         effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (17) of section
   13  627.748, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         627.748 Transportation network companies.—
   15         (17) PREEMPTION.—
   16         (b)1. This subsection does not prohibit an airport or
   17  seaport from charging reasonable pickup fees consistent with any
   18  pickup fees charged to taxicab companies at that airport or
   19  seaport for their use of the airport’s or seaport’s facilities,
   20  provided such fees do not exceed $2.00 per ride, or prohibit the
   21  airport or seaport from designating locations for staging,
   22  pickup, and other similar operations at the airport or seaport.
   23         2. An airport or a seaport imposing a pickup fee as
   24  authorized by subparagraph 1. may not intentionally remove,
   25  degrade, or otherwise impede access to any service, benefit, or
   26  infrastructure, including, but not limited to, staging lots,
   27  curb access, and driver rest facilities, made available to a TNC
   28  before January 1, 2021.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.