2019 Senate Bill 543

Senate Roll Call 320: 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”.

28 Yeas / 8 Nays
Republican (16 Yeas / 5 Nays)
Democrat (12 Yeas / 3 Nays)
Excused or Not Voting (2)