SC lawmakers consider new ride-share safety measure

By iNFOTEL
April 30 2019 01:26 PM

CP1685926707 — FILE - In a Wednesday, April 3, 2019 file photo, people arrive for funeral services for Samantha Josephson at at Congregation Beth Chaim in West Windsor, N.J. Authorities say Josephson, a college student, ordered an Uber ride but mistakenly got into a similar car, was kidnapped and killed in South Carolina. A bill that would create a new misdemeanor crime of impersonating a ride-share driver was approved Tuesday, April 30, 2019 by a South Carolina House subcommittee. Anyone convicted would face up to a year in jail and a ,000 fine.(Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media via AP, File)

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina lawmakers are considering another proposal to improve ride-sharing safety.

A bill that would create a new misdemeanour crime of impersonating a ride-share driver was approved Tuesday by a House subcommittee. Anyone convicted would face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

There probably isn’t enough time for the measure to pass before the session ends May 9. In a better position to make it is a bill passed last week requiring Uber and Lyft drivers to display a sign with their license tag number on the front of their vehicles.

The proposals were prompted by the death of 21-year-old University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson. Police say Josephson was killed in March after getting in the car of someone posing as an Uber driver.

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