Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-2165
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5]
Introduced: 2025-03-14
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1317)

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025</strong></p><p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2165 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 A BILL To amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025 . 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).