Some Kansas House members want to restrict how federal security agents frisk airline passengers at the state’s airports, saying the pat-downs are often humiliating or conducted on people who pose no danger.

The bill sponsored by 21 House members would make it illegal for Transportation Security Administration screeners to touch an airline passenger’s private areas during a search. It also would bar the agents from taking a child under the age of 18 away from a parent or guardian to conduct a search, The Kansas City Star reported Friday.

Between 100 and 110 TSA officers are stationed at seven Kansas airports, including the Hays Regional Airport.

The TSA said in a blog post that the U.S. Constitution bars states from regulating actions of the federal government.

The bill is partly in response to an incident at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport last year in which a woman complained about how screeners treated her 4-year-old daughter.

Michelle Brademeyer said security officers demanded her daughter undergo a pat-down after she initially cleared security because the girl ran to hug her grandmother, who had set off the alarm and was waiting for a pat-down. A security officer yelled at the girl, who cried, and her mother wasn’t allowed to comfort the child, she said.

TSA officials said its officers followed proper procedure and conducted a “modified” pat-down of the child.

“The theater they put us through to get on a plane is absolutely ridiculous,” said Rep. J.R. Claeys, R-Salina, one of the bill’s sponsors.