Title: Options for Ownership Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Options for Ownership Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to withhold 15% of federal highway funding from a state that prohibits the sale of motor vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles. It does not apply to states that impose a fee on motor vehicles that is comparable in revenue to a gasoline tax.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8771 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8771

  To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold Federal highway 
funding from a State that prohibits the sale of motor vehicles that are 
         not a zero-emission vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2022

  Mr. Bost (for himself, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Ellzey) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold Federal highway 
funding from a State that prohibits the sale of motor vehicles that are 
         not a zero-emission vehicles, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Options for Ownership Act''.

SEC. 2. ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 177. Zero-emission vehicles
    ``(a) Withholding of Funds for Noncompliance.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall withhold 15 percent 
        of the amount required to be apportioned to any State under 
        section 104 on the first day of each fiscal year in which the 
        sale of a motor vehicle in such State that is not a zero-
        emission vehicle is prohibited.
            ``(2) Exception.--This subsection shall not apply to any 
        State that imposes a fee on motor vehicles that is comparable 
        in revenue to a gasoline tax.
    ``(b) Effect of Withheld Funds.--
            ``(1) Funds not available to noncomplying state.--No funds 
        withheld under this section from apportionment to any State 
        shall be available for apportionment to such State.
            ``(2) Reapportionment of withheld funds.--Any funds that 
        are withheld from apportionment to any State under this section 
        shall be reapportioned to the other States.
    ``(c) Zero-Emission Vehicle.--In this section, the term `zero-
emission vehicle' means a vehicle that produces zero exhaust emissions 
of any air pollutant for which a national ambient air quality standard 
has been promulgated under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7409) under any and all possible operational modes and conditions.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 1 of title 23, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

``177. Zero-emission vehicles.''.
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