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and drivers providing TNC services. 71 TNCs require a sub-type of the TCP license, to provideprearranged transportation services for compensation using an online-enabled application orplatform (such as smart phone apps) to connect drivers using their personal vehicles withpassengers. If a driver wishes to drive his or her own vehicle for a TNC, the driver is notrequired to have his or her own “P” permit, but rather, may contact the TNC, and complete itsprocess for enrolling as a driver.A TNC is required to, inter alia, (i) conduct national criminal background checks on allof its driver-applicants using the applicant’s social security number; (ii) register in the EPNprogram; (iii) require a one-year driving history from TNC drivers. Fingerprinting is notrequired. If a background check indicates a driver-applicant has any serious convictions, such asdriving under the influence, fraud or sexual offenses, within seven years prior to the submissionof his/her application, that driver-applicant is automatically denied approval as a TNC driver. 72However, the CPUC does not provide a standard for those driver-applicants whose convictionsoccurred more than seven years prior the submission of his or her application.It should be noted that, in March 2015, California Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, D-Sherman Oaks reintroduced Assembly Bill 24 (“AB 24”) (after it died in committee in 2014(formerly AB 612)), which proposes that TNC drivers must submit to the same requirementsimposed on SFMTA taxi drivers, including drug and alcohol testing, undergoing a criminalbackground check overseen by the California Department of Justice, (which includesfingerprinting), and enrolling in the EPN program alerting employers after DUI arrests, althoughthe latter is already an existing requirement imposed on TNCs. 734. Chicago, IllinoisIn Chicago, the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (the “BACP”)is tasked with issuing public chauffeur licenses. New applicants for a public chauffeur license71 CPUC Decision 13-09-045 Adopting Rules and Regulations on TNCs; available athttp://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/Enforcement/TNC/TNC+Application+Form.htm72 http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/1788F1F1-EA38-4B68-B221-4116994F2252/0/TNC_App_Instrctns.pdf73 See http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article12632915.html; AB 612 available athttp://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB612&search_keywords={11081861:2} 35