STATE HOUSE — More than three months after the House passed legislation regulating ride-for-hire companies like Uber and Lyft, Senate leaders on Thursday will release a new version of the bill that abandons restrictions on operation at Logan Airport and the South Boston convention center as well as state-run background checks of drivers.
The Senate bill, put together by a working group of five Democratic senators, would also levy a 10-cent-per ride assessment on ride-hailing companies, the cost of which could not be passed on to customers.
STATE HOUSE — As Massachusetts members of Congress joined a protest on the floor of the U.S. House Wednesday over the refusal of GOP leadership to allow a vote on gun control, House Speaker Robert DeLeo said similar state-level bill could remain bottled up this session.
DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, supports the idea of denying a gun license to anyone on the federal government's terrorist watch or no-fly lists, but was hesitant Wednesday to promise any action on the measure this session, which ends in just over a month.
