Legislation introduced earlier this year by California Democrats aims to ban private companies that allow paying customers to bypass security checkpoints from operating in California airports, citing equality concerns. Senate Bill 1372 was formally introduced in February of this year by State Senator Josh Newman (D-29SD) and is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Transportation Committee today.
Newman’s legislation would target companies like Clear, which allows its members to bypass TSA security checkpoints by using biometric data like retina scans and fingerprints to skip the screening process that TSA uses. According to Newman, this is unfair and allows people with more money to jump ahead of others simply because they have more cash. Clear charges their members $189 per year for this service, and it is in use in over 55 airports across the United States. In California…
