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Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025

To repeal a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to multi-pollutant emissions standards, to amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

Introduced Mar 12, 2025

Latest action (Mar 12, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Referred to
Environment and Public Works Committee
Policy area
Environmental Protection
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary
  • Repeals the Environmental Protection Agency's Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards rule for model year 2027 and later light-duty and medium-duty vehicles
  • Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit tailpipe emissions regulations from mandating specific vehicle technologies or limiting the availability of new motor vehicles based on engine type
  • Requires the EPA to revise existing regulations within 24 months to conform to these new restrictions on emissions rules

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
24 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 12, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
  2. Mar 12, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 996 — Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 90%
  • HR 2165 — Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • S 990 — Freedom to Haul Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 346 — Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act · Introduced Jan 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 593 — Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 514 — MERP Clarifications Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Mar 12, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 12, 2025

Mr. Crapo (for himself, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Budd, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Daines, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Ernst, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Justice, Mrs. Capito, Ms. Lummis, and Mr. Lankford) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

A BILL

To repeal a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to multi-pollutant emissions standards, to amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor 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 “Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MULTI-POLLUTANT EMISSIONS STANDARDS FOR LIGHT-DUTY AND MEDIUM-DUTY VEHICLES.

The final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” (89 Fed. Reg. 27842 (April 18, 2024)) shall have no force or effect.

SEC. 3. 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, including a revision to a regulation, prescribed under paragraph (1), including any regulation prescribed after January 1, 2021, and any regulation proposed after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, 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 those regulations to subparagraph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) (as added by subsection (a)). <all>

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