2019 Senate Bill 543 / 2020 Public Act 78

Authorize “secure identity verification device” to verify alcohol buyer’s age

Introduced in the Senate

Oct. 8, 2019

Introduced by Sen. Curtis VanderWall (R-35)

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”.

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform

Oct. 16, 2019

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Dec. 4, 2019

Passed in the Senate 27 to 8 (details)

Motion to reconsider by Sen. Peter MacGregor (R-28)

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

Passed in the Senate 28 to 8 (details)

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”.

Received in the House

Dec. 4, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform

Jan. 21, 2020

Reported without amendment

Refer to the Committee on Ways and Means with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted.

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

March 4, 2020

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

March 12, 2020

Passed in the House 100 to 7 (details)

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”.

Received in the Senate

March 17, 2020

Passed in the Senate 29 to 8 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

April 2, 2020