Ride booking services like Uber will now have to be licensed and pay annual licence fees in Queensland after new laws were passed in State Parliament on Wednesday night.

A spokeswoman for Road Safety Minister Mark Bailey said individual ride-sharing drivers would now need to pay an annual fee of $237.26.

The figure does not include the cost of other requirements under the new laws, such as criminal history checks, vehicle safety inspections, and driver authorisation applications.

Uber said the new laws this would make Queensland one of the most expensive places in Australia to become a ride-share driver.

Uber Queensland state manager Alex Golden said the State Government "got it right" last year with its first raft of safety regulations.

"The new fees introduced in this bill create no additional safety or consumer benefits — they just make Queensland one of the most expensive places in Australia to become a ride-share driver," Mr Golden said.

"We're disappointed for Queenslanders who will miss out on the opportunity to make flexible money from ride-sharing, not because they aren't safe and responsible drivers, but because they can't afford the upfront costs imposed by Government."

The laws also imposes stricter restrictions on drivers of ride-booking services, such as a zero alcohol requirements and fatigue management.

Mr Bailey said they were the same requirements imposed on taxi drivers and the laws went a small way to levelling the playing field for app-based services and taxis.

"This is a very difficult area because we had a very sudden change to this industry through digital disruption," he said.

"We can't necessarily replace people's value that has been lost in the marketplace, but we do want to bring certainty and try to get the value back into those existing taxi licences.

"It's a very sudden change to the model in the industry that impacted on people who have licences and who work in the industry.

"We've consulted fully on this to get the balance right and make it fairer."

Mr Bailey said the Government also wanted to make sure people using the services were protected.

"There are also strong provisions about misconduct or drivers who do the wrong thing," he said.

"There'll be very low tolerance for them to stay within the industry and it's pretty much it's three strikes and you're out."

The Opposition did not oppose the bill but LNP spokesman Andrew Powell said the legislation was flawed.

"They've achieved something that possibly no other government has achieved before — where no part of the industry was happy with all or part of this legislation," he said.

"At the end of the day the industry wanted it to go through reluctantly — to give some level of stability and certainty to an industry that has been crying out for it."

Government's 'dropped the ball'

Taxi Council of Queensland CEO Benjamin Wash told ABC Radio Brisbane said the legislation still did not level the playing field.

"In fact, the legislation enshrines a different cost structure for what is essentially the same service," he said.

"It's still strangers picking people up and dropping them off.

"The fact that there's no cameras and there's no minimum conditions for personalised transport drivers or people in booked hire services, it beggar's belief that the Government's dropped the ball so badly on this."

He said it was widely known that people in booked-hire services and ride-sharing around the world want to be able to run a business with no regulation and no cost structures.

"It's certainly nothing new, but there's no element in the community or society where a business can just run with impunity, cutting corners, cutting costs, and not having any regulatory frameworks that are meaningful to define their business," he said.

Ride Sharing Drivers Association of Australia spokesman Les Johnson said it had found there was only a 4 per cent retention rate of drivers after 12 months, with 80 per cent not earning enough money.

"There's other expenses coming into it," he said.

"I think that with a lot of the fees and charges the Government has looked at over a period of time — many which the association has argued against — they're just forcing the cost of entry into the industry up and up and up when the returns are not there.