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[H.R. 1349 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 805
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1349

                         [Report No. 115-1032]

    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

                           November 16, 2018

          Additional sponsors: Mr. Cramer and Mr. Rohrabacher

                           November 16, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                                2, 2017]


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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 of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133) is amended by 
adding at the end of subsection (d) the following:
            ``(8) Allowable uses.--Each agency administering any area 
        designated as wilderness may allow the use of motorized 
        wheelchairs, non-motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized adaptive 
        cycles, non-motorized bicycles, non-motorized strollers, non-
        motorized wheelbarrows, non-motorized survey wheels, non-
        motorized measuring wheels, or non-motorized game carts within 
        any wilderness area. For the purposes of this paragraph, the 
        term `wheelchair' means a device designed solely for use by a 
        mobility-impaired person for locomotion, that is suitable for 
        use in an indoor pedestrian area.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 805

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1349

                         [Report No. 115-1032]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           November 16, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed