US HB1349 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-11-16 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 805.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on March 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-11-16 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 805.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
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. 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.
Title
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.
Sponsors
Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA] | Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA] | Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR] | Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM] |
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND] | Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [R-CA] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2018-11-16 | House | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 805. |
2018-11-16 | House | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1032. |
2017-12-13 | House | Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 18. |
2017-12-13 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. |
2017-12-12 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. |
2017-12-12 | House | Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged. |
2017-12-07 | House | Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
2017-03-15 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. |
2017-03-02 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. |
2017-03-02 | House | Introduced in House |
Subjects
Disability and paralysis
Health technology, devices, supplies
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public lands and natural resources
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Health technology, devices, supplies
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public lands and natural resources
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats