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.

Bill: 115-hr-1349
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-02
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Disability and paralysis

Health technology, devices, supplies

Pedestrians and bicycling

Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Latest action: action_date: 2018-11-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 805.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: This bill amends the Wilderness Act to declare that provisions of such Act prohibiting the use of motorized vehicles, aircraft, or other forms of mechanical transport shall not prohibit the use of motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized bicycles, strollers, wheelbarrows, survey wheels, or game carts within any wilderness areas.

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1349 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 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.

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. .

tv_txt: IB Union Calendar No. 805 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 1349 [Report No. 115–1032] 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 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.

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. .

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