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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 234 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To allow certain veterans to use high occupancy vehicle lanes, including |
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| 6 | 6 | | toll lanes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY7, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ALLIOTAKISintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To allow certain veterans to use high occupancy vehicle lanes, |
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| 14 | 14 | | including toll lanes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘HOV Lanes for Heroes 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. HOV FACILITIES. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (a) I |
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| 22 | 22 | | NGENERAL.—Section 166(b) of title 23, United 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the fol-8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | lowing: 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ‘‘(7) D |
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| 26 | 26 | | ISABLED VETERANS.— 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The public authority 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | may allow a disabled veteran to use the HOV 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | facility if such veteran has a license plate that 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | clearly identifies the vehicle, a registered trans-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ponder, or other method of identification the 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | public authority considers necessary for quali-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | fication. 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(B) D |
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| 38 | 38 | | EFINITION OF DISABLED VET -8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ERAN.—For purposes of this paragraph, the 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | term ‘disabled veteran’ means a veteran (as 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | such term is defined in section 101 of title 38) 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | who the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has de-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | termined has a service-connected (as such term 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | is defined in such section) disability rated at or 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | above a percentage determined to be qualifying 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | by the public authority. 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(C) O |
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| 48 | 48 | | CCUPANCY EXCEPTION .—Notwith-17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | standing the occupancy requirement of sub-18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | section (a)(2), 1 occupant described in subpara-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | graph (B) of this paragraph may be permitted 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | to use a HOV facility. 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(D) N |
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| 54 | 54 | | O CHARGE FOR TOLLS.—Under this 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | paragraph, a public authority may charge no 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | toll.’’. 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 166 of 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | such title is further amended— 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ‘‘through 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (5)’’ and inserting ‘‘through (7)’’; and 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ‘‘paragraph 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (4) or (5)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (4), (5), (6), 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | or (7)’’. 7 |
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