[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1349 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1349

    To amend the Wilderness Act to ensure that the use of bicycles, 
wheelchairs, strollers, and game carts is not prohibited in Wilderness 
                     Areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2017

Mr. McClintock (for himself, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Westerman, and Mr. Pearce) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Wilderness Act to ensure that the use of bicycles, 
wheelchairs, strollers, and game carts is not prohibited in Wilderness 
                     Areas, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF CERTAIN WHEELED DEVICES NOT PROHIBITED IN WILDERNESS 
              AREAS.

    Section 4(c) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(c)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: ``Nothing in this section shall 
prohibit the use of motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized wheelchairs, 
non-motorized bicycles, strollers, wheelbarrows, survey wheels, 
measuring wheels, or game carts within any wilderness area.''.
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