Texas Anti-Groping Bill Shot Down by DOJ Threats HB1937...legislators made a valiant stand to outlaw the invasive patdowns that the TSA adopted to punish as a second option for people who didn’t want to go through whole-body-imaging scanners (aka nudey scans). Texas state representative David Simpon authored a bill that would make any patdown that involved touching private parts a misdemeanor that would mean a $4,000 fine and possible jail time for TSA officials doing their jobs.the feds threatened to cancel all flights out of Texas if it passed. Texas U.S. attorney told senators in a letter that Texas didn’t have the right to pass a statute that would conflict with federal law, per the U.S. Constitution. In this case of Texas Hold’em, the legislators weren’t willing to call the feds bluff; they folded. “The TSA bill did ‘expire’ [Wednesday] evening,” a spokesperson for the bill’s author tells me. “It was brought up briefly but there weren’t the votes to support it being voted on.” The bill cannot be reintroduced this term.
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/05/26/texas-fight-against-tsa-groping-is-over-feds-win/
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