Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act of 2025
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to prevent states from imposing standards that limit the sale or use of new internal combustion engine vehicles. It adds a new requirement that state standards must not directly or indirectly restrict such vehicles, and it prohibits the EPA from considering pre-2025 state standards as valid under existing waivers. The bill also requires the EPA to revoke certain existing waivers granted between January 2022 and the bill's enactment date if those waivers don't comply with the new standard. This directly affects states with their own vehicle emission rules (like California's ZEV program), limiting their ability to regulate internal combustion engine vehicles through EPA-approved standards.
Bill status
in committee
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Introduction
Mar 2025
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Introduced Mar 12, 2025
Last action Mar 12, 2025
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Mar 12, 2025
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 20 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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Party
State
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Markwayne Mullin
RRepublican
Co
Bill Cassidy
RRepublican
Co
Cynthia M. Lummis
RRepublican
Co
Dan Sullivan
RRepublican
Co
James C. Justice
RRepublican
Co
James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
John Barrasso
RRepublican
Co
John Hoeven
RRepublican
Co
Katie Boyd Britt
RRepublican
Co
Kevin Cramer
RRepublican
Co
Mike Crapo
RRepublican
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