119-hr234

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 234 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 234

 To allow certain veterans to use high occupancy vehicle lanes, 
 including toll lanes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 7, 2025

 Ms. Malliotakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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 A BILL

 To allow certain veterans to use high occupancy vehicle lanes, 
 including toll lanes.

 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 ``HOV Lanes for Heroes Act''.

SEC. 2. HOV FACILITIES.

    (a) In General.--

Section 166

    (b) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting at the end the following:
 ``

    (7) Disabled veterans.--
 ``
        (A) In general.--The public authority may allow a 
 disabled veteran to use the HOV facility if such 
 veteran has a license plate that clearly identifies the 
 vehicle, a registered transponder, or other method of 
 identification the public authority considers necessary 
 for qualification.
 ``
        (B) Definition of disabled veteran.--For purposes 
 of this paragraph, the term `disabled veteran' means a 
 veteran (as such term is defined in 

section 101 of 
 title 38) who the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has 
 determined has a service-connected (as such term is 
 defined in such section) disability rated at or above a 
 percentage determined to be qualifying by the public 
 authority.
 ``
            (C) Occupancy exception.--Notwithstanding the 
 occupancy requirement of subsection

    (a)

    (2) , 1 occupant 
 described in subparagraph
        (B) of this paragraph may be 
 permitted to use a HOV facility.
 ``
            (D) No charge for tolls.--Under this paragraph, a 
 public authority may charge no toll.''.

    (b) Conforming Amendments.--

Section 166 of such title is further 
amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (b)

    (1) by striking ``through

    (5) '' and 
 inserting ``through

    (7) ''; and

    (2) in subsection
            (d) (1) by striking ``paragraph

    (4) or

    (5) '' and inserting ``paragraph

    (4) ,

    (5) ,

    (6) , or

    (7) ''.
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