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Nevada Transportation Authority Can't Complete Study On Background Checks For Drivers

State officials said they're unable to conduct the complete study on background checks that some lawmakers wanted as a condition of voting for ride-hailing in Nevada.

The Nevada Transportation Authority told members of the Legislative Commission on Monday that they don't have the authority — or the money — to force drivers for Uber and Lyft to participate in fingerprint background checks for testing purposes. Lawmakers wanted to compare whether fingerprinting and FBI background checks, which are required for taxi and limo drivers, are better at catching criminal history than the checks Uber and Lyft do now.

Authority officials provided lawmakers with a brief analysis of the two types of background checks, but said the Legislature would need to pass another bill to give them power to conduct an in-depth comparison using actual driver data.