{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-4468","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 4468","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to emissions from vehicles, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to emissions from vehicles, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-07-06","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2023-12-06","vote":{"id":"118-2023-h703","question":"On Passage","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act","result":"Passed","yea":221,"nay":197,"present":0,"not_voting":15,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll703.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.","date":"2023-12-07"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-12-06","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act","result":"Failed","yea":201,"nay":214,"present":0,"not_voting":18,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll702.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-12-06","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023"},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill prohibits the EPA from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing the proposed rule titled Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles. Among other purposes, the proposed rule includes more stringent greenhouse gas standards for both light-duty and medium duty vehicles starting with model year 2027."}],"words":125},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Bars the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a specific proposed rule on light-duty and medium-duty vehicle emissions, and amends the Clean Air Act to restrict how vehicle emissions regulations may be written.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H32AC539E5BC34B99B4D2327AFEFFA9B9"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H3A2387AC600A4025988D3E321C5F57CA"}]},"core_areas":["Prohibition on a proposed EPA multi-pollutant vehicle emissions rule for model years 2027 and later","Limits on technology mandates and engine-type availability in Clean Air Act vehicle emissions regulations"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Prohibits the EPA Administrator from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing the proposed rule titled \"Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles,\" published May 5, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 29184).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H32AC539E5BC34B99B4D2327AFEFFA9B9"}},{"text":"Amends section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act to provide that any regulation proposed or prescribed under paragraph (1) on or after January 1, 2021, including any revision, shall not mandate the use of any specific technology.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H3A2387AC600A4025988D3E321C5F57CA"}},{"text":"Amends the same Clean Air Act provision to provide that such regulations shall not result in limited availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in those vehicles.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H3A2387AC600A4025988D3E321C5F57CA"}},{"text":"Requires the EPA Administrator, not later than 24 months after the date of enactment, to promulgate the revisions to regulations that may be necessary to conform them to the new Clean Air Act paragraph.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H3A2387AC600A4025988D3E321C5F57CA"}},{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023.\"","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#HB1698900ACE448F4AE794BF5FDC5709E"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh#H32AC539E5BC34B99B4D2327AFEFFA9B9"},"heading":"Prohibition against finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to emissions from vehicles","effect":"Bars the EPA Administrator from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing one named proposed rule on multi-pollutant emissions standards for model year 2027 and later light-duty and medium-duty vehicles.","amount":null,"quote":"may not finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles”"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2023-12-06","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4468/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-4468.png","v":"fed1f56710ea","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4468, 118th Congress: Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023. House: 221 Yea, 197 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 6 Dec 2023."}}