Official Summaries

HOV Lanes for Heroes Act

This bill provides authority for a public authority to allow a disabled veteran to use a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) facility if such veteran has a license plate that clearly identifies the vehicle, a registered transponder, or other method of qualifying identification.

The public authority may not charge a toll to the veteran for use of the HOV facility.

Current Full Text

[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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