2019 Senate Bill 543

House Roll Call 153: Passed

To authorize the use by stores, bars and restaurants of a “secure identity verification device” to determine whether a person is old enough to buy alcohol. The methods could include the following, as described by the Senate Fiscal Agency: An electronic biometric scan referenced against certain photo identification cards; a photo identification previously verified by an electronic authentication process; a commercially available knowledge-based electronic authentication process; and an authenticated picture identification “securely linked to biometrics contemporaneously collected from the individual”.

100 Yeas / 7 Nays
Republican (56 Yeas / 1 Nay)
Democrat (44 Yeas / 6 Nays)
Excused or Not Voting (2)