BILL NUMBER: AB 1968	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 5381.5 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to charter-party carriers of passengers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1968, as introduced, Melendez. Charter-party carriers of
passengers: reports.
   The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain
exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from
engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the
Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate
or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law
requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of
passengers include on a waybill or trip report certain information,
including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5381.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   5381.5.  (a) The commission shall, by rule or other appropriate
procedure, ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers
operates on a prearranged basis within the state, consistent with
Section 5360.5. The commission shall require every charter-party
carrier of passengers to include on a waybill or trip report at least
all of the following:
   (1) The name of at least one passenger in the traveling party, or
identifying information of the traveling party's affiliation, along
with the point of origin and destination of the passenger or
traveling party.
   (2) Information as to whether the transportation was arranged by
telephone, written contract, or electronic communication.
   (b) A waybill or trip report may be kept in electronic or hardcopy
format. When requested by any commission or airport enforcement
officer or any official of a city, county, or city and county
authorized to inspect a waybill or trip report pursuant to
subdivision (h) of Section 5371.4, the waybill or trip report may be
provided in either electronic or hardcopy format.
   (c) A charter-party carrier of passengers shall produce in its
office a hardcopy of any waybill or trip report when requested by the
commission or one of its authorized representatives pursuant to
Section 5389. 
   (d) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2014.