{"id":19304,"date":"2015-04-02T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19304"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:47:18","slug":"kansas-house-says-no-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19304","title":{"rendered":"Kansas House says no Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas House has approved changes to a transportation bill that Uber says could drive it out of the state.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Changes to the bill the House approved on Thursday would require drivers from transportation network companies to hold additional insurance for the periods they are transporting riders for pay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It would also require companies to do background checks on their drivers through the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bill directly affects the company Uber, which connects independent drivers to riders through a smart device app. The company posted on its blog Monday that the bill would make it impossible for Uber to operate in Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Republican Rep. Scott Schwab said the bill would give fair regulation to Uber without giving the company special treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas House has approved changes to a transportation bill that Uber says could drive it out of the state. Changes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3570],"tags":[5301,5298,5300,5299],"class_list":["post-19304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-news","tag-kansas-bureau-of-investigation","tag-kansas-house","tag-kbi","tag-uber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19331,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19304\/revisions\/19331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}