Creates provisions regarding vicarious liability for transportation network companies

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Creates provisions regarding vicarious liability for transportation network companies

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1530 - This act provides that a transportation network company (TNC) shall not be vicariously liable by reason of owning, operating, or maintaining the digital network accessed by a TNC driver or rider for harm to persons or property while the driver is logged into the digital network if there is no negligence or criminal wrongdoing by the TNC under circumstances described in the act and the TNC has fulfilled its obligations under current law.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1530 - This act provides that a transportation network company (TNC) shall not be vicariously liable by reason of owning, operating, or maintaining the digital network accessed by a TNC driver or rider for harm to persons or property while the driver is logged into the digital network if there is no negligence or criminal wrongdoing by the TNC under circumstances described in the act and the TNC has fulfilled its obligations under current law.
• This act is identical to HB 1255 (2025).
• TAYLOR MIDDLETON

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Official Summary Text

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SB 1530 - This act provides that a transportation network company (TNC) shall not be vicariously liable by reason of owning, operating, or maintaining the digital network accessed by a TNC driver or rider for harm to persons or property while the driver is logged into the digital network if there is no negligence or criminal wrongdoing by the TNC under circumstances described in the act and the TNC has fulfilled its obligations under current law.

This act is identical to HB 1255 (2025).
TAYLOR MIDDLETON

Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1530
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR TRENT.
5402S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapter 387, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to transportation network
companies.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 387, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1
one new section, to be known as section 387.435, to read as 2
follows:3
387.435. A TNC shall not be vicariously liable under 1
any law by reason of owning, operating, or maintaining the 2
digital network accessed by a TNC driver or rider, or by 3
being the TNC affiliated with a TNC driver, for harm to 4
persons or property that results or arises out of the use, 5
operation, or possession of a motor vehicle operating as a 6
TNC vehicle while the driver is logged on to the digital 7
network if: 8
(1) There is no negligence under sections 387.400 to 9
387.440 or criminal wrongdoing under the federal or Missouri 10
criminal code on the part of the TNC; and 11
(2) The TNC has fulfilled all of its obligations under 12
sections 387.400 to 387.440 with respect to the TNC driver. 13
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