---
kind: "diff"
citation: "H.R. 1349"
bill: "115-hr-1349"
heading: "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."
from: "ih"
from_label: "Introduced in House"
to: "rh"
to_label: "Reported in House"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/115/hr/1349/changes/rh"
---

# H.R. 1349 — what changed

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. — 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## Section 1 Use of certain wheeled devices not prohibited in Wilderness Areas

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