Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prevent the elimination of the sale of motor vehicles with internal combustion engines, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025
This bill modifies the waiver process under the Clean Air Act related to state emission control standards for new motor vehicles (or new motor vehicle engines).
Under current law, states are preempted from adopting or enforcing emission control standards for new motor vehicles (or new motor vehicle engines) unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a waiver authorizing a state to adopt such standards if certain requirements are met.
The bill provides that state standards that directly or indirectly limit the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines are not eligible for waivers. The bill also prohibits the EPA from determining that any state standards amended after the bill's enactment are within the scope of an existing waiver.
Additionally, the bill requires the EPA to revoke waivers granted between January 1, 2022, and the date of enactment of this bill if the standards directly or indirectly limit the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines.
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- OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
- KOCH GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC
- AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS
- OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS
- KOCH GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- White House Office
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 996: Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-996/
"S. 996: Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-996/.
S. 996, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-996/.
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