Title: Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act
This bill makes the America the Beautiful-National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available, without charge, to members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and Gold Star Families. The pass covers the entrance fee and standard amenity recreation fee for all federal recreational lands and waters.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2580 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2580

     To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to make free National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands 
    Passes available to members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2021

  Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Grassley, and Ms. Ernst) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to make free National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands 
    Passes available to members of the Armed Forces, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks 
(VIP) Act''.

SEC. 2. RECREATION PASSES.

    Section 805 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (Public 
Law 108-447; 118 Stat. 3385; 16 U.S.C. 6804) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4), by striking ``age and disability 
        discounted'' and inserting ``age discount and lifetime''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discounted'' and 
                inserting ``Free and Discounted'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the heading, by striking 
                        ``Disability discount'' and inserting 
                        ``Lifetime passes''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and 
                        inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Any veteran who provides adequate proof of 
                military service as determined by the Secretary.
                    ``(C) Any member of a Gold Star Family who meets 
                the eligibility requirements of section 3.2 of 
                Department of Defense Instruction 1348.36 (or a 
                successor instruction).''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in the heading, by striking ``Gold star 
                        families parks pass'' and inserting ``Annual 
                        passes''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``members of'' and all 
                        that follows through the end of the sentence 
                        and inserting ``members of the Armed Forces and 
                        their dependents who provide adequate proof of 
                        eligibility for such pass as determined by the 
                        Secretary.''.
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