The article also says "If passed, the bill would bar Clear, a private security clearance company founded in 2010, from airports in California. " The bill text

The article also says "If passed, the bill would bar Clear, a private security clearance company founded in 2010, from airports in California. " The bill text introduces no new, privately-operated security line; it only says that new contracts can't be made with companies that let clients skip the security lines. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1372 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... So it's not clear where Clear could go if they can't expedite clients through either regular or TSA Pre lines and there's not an obvious (to me?) way they could operate their own whole private security checkpoints. Then again, LAX has shenanigans like PS - see https://reserveps.com/ https://reserveps.com/ - that have a whole private terminal with private security for people flying public, where they drive you right to your (Delta/United/American) flight, so maybe that's the direction Clear goes?