Official Summaries

Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025

This bill limits the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to regulating emissions standards for new motor vehicles. Specifically, the EPA is prohibited from prescribing a regulation related to new motor vehicle emissions standards that (1) mandates the use of any specific technology, or (2) results in limited availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2165 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2165

 To amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not 
             limit the availability of new motor vehicles.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2025

 Mr. Walberg (for himself, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Bilirakis, and Mr. Allen) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not 
             limit the availability of new motor vehicles.

    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 ``Choice in Automobile Retail Sales 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING TAILPIPE REGULATIONS DO NOT LIMIT THE AVAILABILITY OF 
              NEW MOTOR VEHICLES.

    (a) In General.--Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7521(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(2) Any regulation'' and inserting 
        ``(2)(A) Any regulation''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) Any regulation proposed or prescribed, including any 
        revision to a regulation, under paragraph (1) on or after 
        January 1, 2021, shall not--
                    ``(i) mandate the use of any specific technology; 
                or
                    ``(ii) result in limited availability of new motor 
                vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine 
                in such new motor vehicles.''.
    (b) Necessary Revisions to Regulations.--Not later than 24 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate such revisions to 
regulations as may be necessary to conform such regulations to section 
202(a)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act, as added by subsection (a).
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