A transportation network company must screen drivers before allowing login, including age, license, vehicle proof, background checks, and driving record review, and it may not allow drivers with specified recent convictions or sex-offender registry matches.
Sec. 2402.107. DRIVER REQUIREMENTS. (a) Before permitting an individual to log in as a driver on the company's digital network, a transportation network company must: (1) confirm that the individual: (A) is at least 18 years of age; (B) maintains a valid driver's license issued by this state, another state, or the District of Columbia; and (C) possesses proof of registration and automobile financial responsibility for each motor vehicle to be used to provide digitally prearranged rides; (2) conduct, or cause to be conducted, a local, state, and national criminal background check for the individual that includes the use of: (A) a commercial multistate and multijurisdiction criminal records locator or other similar commercial nationwide database; (B) the national sex offender public website maintained by the United States Department of Justice or a successor agency; and (C) the state sex offender public website maintained by the Department of Public Safety; and (3) obtain and review the individual's driving record. (b) A transportation network company may not permit an individual to log in as a driver on the company's digital network if the individual: (1) has been convicted in the three-year period preceding the issue date of the driving record obtained under Subsection (a)(3) of: (A) more than three offenses classified by the Department of Public Safety as moving violations; or (B) one or more of the following offenses: (i) fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer under Section 545.421, Transportation Code; (ii) reckless driving under Section 545.401, Transportation Code; (iii) driving without a valid driver's license under Section 521.025, Transportation Code; or (iv) driving with an invalid driver's license under Section 521.457, Transportation Code; (2) has been convicted in the preceding seven-year period of any of the following: (A) driving while intoxicated under Section 49.04 or 49.045, Penal Code; (B) use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony; (C) a felony crime involving property damage; (D) fraud; (E) theft; (F) an act of violence; or (G) an act of terrorism; or (3) is found to be registered in the national sex offender public website maintained by the United States Department of Justice or a successor agency or in the state sex offender public website maintained by the Department of Public Safety. (c) A transportation network company shall conduct or cause to be conducted an annual criminal background check described by Subsection (a)(2) for each driver authorized to access the company's digital network. Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 231 (H.B. 100), Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 2017. Amended by: Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 365 (H.B. 47), Sec. 19, eff. September 1, 2025.