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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 2165

Introduced

Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025

Sponsor
RTim Walberg· Michigan
Introduced
March 14, 2025
Policy area
Environmental Protection
Latest action
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1317)March 27, 2025
[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

_______________________________________________________________________

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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