HB 1273 CO
Transportation Network Company Maximum Percent Fare Retention
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Summary
This Colorado bill prohibits transportation network companies (TNCs) from retaining more than 20 percent of consumer fares paid for completed rides through their digital platforms. Consumer fares are defined as the amount paid by consumers for transportation tasks, excluding tips and pass-throughs such as tolls, taxes, airport fees, and payments to certified driver support organizations, which must be paid to the driver. The bill also prohibits TNCs from imposing fees unless the combined total of fees plus the TNC's retained portion does not exceed 20 percent of the consumer fare. The bill requires TNCs to include additional disclosures regarding airport fees, pass-throughs, taxes, and driver support organization payments in their periodic reports to the Department of Labor and Employment, and changes the reporting frequency from semi-annual to annual. The bill applies the same complaint process used for wage complaints to complaints about TNC disclosure and deactivation policy violations.
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Official abstract
The bill prohibits a transportation network company (TNC) from retaining more than 20% of a consumer fare paid for a driver's completion of a transportation task through the TNC's digital platform. 'Consumer fare' is defined in the bill as the amount a consumer pays for a transportation task, excluding tips, and pass-throughs such as payments for tolls, taxes, airport fees, and payments for a certified driver support organization . The amount that a TNC excludes from a consumer fare payment for a certified driver support organization must not exceed the per-task amount determined by rule and must be remitted to the certified driver support organization. Pass-throughs must be paid to the driver. A TNC is also not allowed to impose a fee on a TNC driver unless the amount of the fee plus the amount that the TNC retains from a consumer fare does not exceed 20% of the consumer fare. The bill adds disclosures regarding airport fees, pass-throughs, taxes, and payments for a driver support organization to be added to periodic disclosures TNCs make to the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment and changes the frequency of the disclosures from semi-annual reporting to annual reporting. Finally, the bill applies the same process to complaints against TNCs concerning violations of disclosure and deactivation policy requirements as the process that is applied to wage complaints.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Sponsors (4)
- M. Froelich Democratic · sponsor
- J. Willford Democratic · sponsor
- L. Cutter Democratic · sponsor
- K. Wallace Democratic · sponsor
12 coauthors / cosponsors
- K. Brown Democratic · cosponsor
- C. Clifford Democratic · cosponsor
- J. Jackson Democratic · cosponsor
- S. Lieder Democratic · cosponsor
- M. Lindsay Democratic · cosponsor
- J. Mabrey Democratic · cosponsor
- K. Nguyen Democratic · cosponsor
- M. Rutinel Democratic · cosponsor
- E. Sirota Democratic · cosponsor
- T. Story Democratic · cosponsor
- E. Velasco Democratic · cosponsor
- Y. Zokaie Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (8)
- May 12, 2026 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely · upper
- May 11, 2026 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy · upper
- May 11, 2026 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · lower
- May 9, 2026 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments · lower
- May 8, 2026 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee · lower
- May 8, 2026 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole · lower
- Mar 11, 2026 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations · lower
- Feb 19, 2026 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor · lower
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