Texas § OC.2402.001 - DEFINITIONS

§ OC.2402.001. DEFINITIONS

DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: Text of subdivision as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 227 (H.B. 4215 ), Sec. 2 (1) "Delivery customer" means an individual who orders or receives a digitally prearranged delivery through a delivery network company's digital network undertaken by a delivery person. Text of subdivision as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1034 (S.B. 2807 ), Sec. 4 (1) "Automated driving system" and "automated motor vehicle" have the meanings assigned by Section 545.451 , Transportation Code. Text of subdivision as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 227 (H.B. 4215 ), Sec. 2 (1-a) "Delivery network company" means a business entity that offers or uses a digital network to arrange for the delivery of food, beverages, or consumer goods from a restaurant or retail establishment to a delivery customer. The term does not include an entity that only delivers products that the entity produces or stores on the entity's premises. Text of subdivision as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1034 (S.B. 2807 ), Sec. 4 (1-a) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. (1-b) "Delivery person" means an individual who undertakes a digitally prearranged delivery in this state using a delivery network company's digital network. (1-c) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. (2) "Digital network" means any online-enabled application, website, or system offered or used by: (A) a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides between passengers and drivers; or (B) a delivery network company that enables digitally prearranged deliveries. (2-a) "Digitally prearranged delivery" means the transport and delivery or attempted delivery of goods to a delivery customer that is prearranged through a delivery network company's digital network. The term may include the selection or collection of items for delivery by an individual using a delivery network company's digital network and other tasks incidental to delivery. (3) "Digitally prearranged ride" means a ride in a personal vehicle between points chosen by the passenger that is prearranged through a digital network. (3-a) "Driver" means an individual who undertakes a digitally prearranged ride between points chosen by a passenger. (4) "Personal vehicle" means a vehicle that: (A) is owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by a driver; and (B) is not a taxicab, limousine, or other vehicle regulated by a municipality under Section 215.004 , Local Government Code, or a joint airport board under Section 22.081 , Transportation Code. (5) "Transportation network company" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that, for compensation, enables a passenger to prearrange with a driver, exclusively through the entity's digital network, a digitally prearranged ride. The term does not include an entity that provides: (A) street-hail taxicab services; (B) limousine or other car services arranged by a method other than through a digital network; (C) shared expense carpool or vanpool arrangements; or (D) a type of ride service for which: (i) the fee received by the driver does not exceed the driver's costs of providing the ride; or (ii) the driver receives a fee that exceeds the driver's costs associated with providing the ride but makes not more than three round-trips per day between the driver's or passenger's place of employment and the driver's or passenger's home. 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. 227 (H.B. 4215 ), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025. Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1034 (S.B. 2807 ), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2025.