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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="10-408" title_number="10" title_name="For-Hire Driving Services" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Transportation Network Company Services">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Shared passenger trip” means a prearranged ride for which the passenger agrees, at the time the passenger requests the ride through a transportation network company’s digital network application, to be transported with another passenger who has separately requested a prearranged ride regardless of whether another passenger is transported.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Transportation network company impact fee” means the fee imposed by the State under this section on each transportation network service that includes a passenger trip during transportation network coverage period three as described in § 10–101(n)(1)(iii) of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a transportation network company impact fee on passenger trips that originate in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A transportation network company shall collect the transportation network company impact fee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection and except as provided in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the transportation network company impact fee is 75 cents for each passenger trip.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection, the transportation network company impact fee for a passenger trip provided using a fuel cell electric vehicle or a plug–in electric drive vehicle, as those terms are defined in Title 11, Subtitle 1 of the Transportation Article, is 50 cents for each passenger trip.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection, the transportation network company impact fee is 50 cents for each shared passenger trip.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>In this subparagraph, “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers” means the index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor that is the U.S. city average of all items in a basket of consumer goods and services.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers shall be determined by comparing the average of the index for the 12 months ending on the preceding April 30 to the average of the index for the prior 12 months.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The transportation network company impact fee shall be increased on July 1, 2028, and on July 1 each subsequent year in accordance with this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>On or before June 1 each year, the Comptroller shall determine and announce:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as determined by the Comptroller under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the transportation network company impact fee effective for the fiscal year beginning on the following July 1 as determined by the Comptroller under subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Subject to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph, on July 1 each year, the transportation network company impact fee shall be increased by the amount, rounded to the nearest one–tenth of a cent, that equals the product of multiplying:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the transportation network company impact fee in effect on the date of the Comptroller’s announcement under subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <level label="1">
          <text>If there is a decline or no growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, the transportation network company impact fee shall remain unchanged.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Any increase in the transportation network company impact fee under subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph may not be greater than 8% of the transportation network company impact fee effective in the previous year.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A transportation network company shall either:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>collect the transportation network company impact fee from a passenger on behalf of a transportation network operator; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>pay the transportation network company impact fee on behalf of a passenger.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a transportation network company collects the transportation network company impact fee from the passenger:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the transportation network company impact fee shall be charged in addition to any other tax or fee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the transportation network company shall show the impact fee as a separate line item on the passenger’s receipt, invoice, or other bill of sale, distinct from the transaction price and any other tax or fee imposed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The receipt, invoice, or other bill of sale shall list the impact fee as “Transportation Network Company Impact Fee”.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A transportation network company that pays the transportation network company impact fee on behalf of a passenger shall remit the fee to the Comptroller as if the fee had been collected from the passenger on the date of the passenger trip.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A transportation network company shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>report the transportation network company impact fee on a form prescribed by the Comptroller; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>remit the transportation network company impact fee to the Comptroller not later than 30 days after the end of a calendar quarter, or as otherwise specified by the Comptroller in regulations.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For the expense of reporting and remitting the transportation network company impact fee the transportation network company may retain the lesser of 0.9% of the amount the transportation network company remits under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection or $250.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, the audit, assessment, liability for payment, refund, penalty, interest, enforcement, collection remedies, appeal, and administrative provisions that are applicable to an assessment imposed under § 10–406 of this subtitle apply to the transportation network company impact fee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>From the transportation network company impact fee revenue, the Comptroller shall distribute the amount necessary to pay refunds relating to the transportation network company impact fee to a refund account.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After making the distribution required under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Comptroller shall distribute the amount necessary to administer the transportation network company impact fee to an administrative cost account.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>After making the distributions required under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, the Comptroller shall deposit the balance of the revenue from the transportation network company impact fee in the Transportation Network Company Impact Fee Account in the Transportation Trust Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Comptroller may adopt regulations or other requirements or procedures to carry out this section, including requirements and procedures regarding the administration, collection, and enforcement of the transportation network company impact fee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>This section may not be construed to have any effect on an assessment imposed under § 10–406 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
