HR4468-118

Reported

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.

118th Congress Introduced Dec 7, 2023

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, 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., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Transportation, Technology.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HB1698900ACE448F4AE794BF5FDC5709E: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2023.
  • Section H32AC539E5BC34B99B4D2327AFEFFA9B9: 2. Prohibition against finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to emissions from vehicles The Administrator of the Environmental...
  • Section H3A2387AC600A4025988D3E321C5F57CA: 3. Ensuring tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(3)) is amended—...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, 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., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Transportation, Technology

Primary Purpose

This bill, 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., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Transportation Technology

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: eh
federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

Reported
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 7, 2023

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment …

Sep 1, 2023

Additional sponsors: Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Good of Virginia, …

Sep 1, 2023

Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce; committed to …

Jul 6, 2023

Mr. Walberg (for himself, Mr. Clyde, Mr. James, Mr. Bucshon, …

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Automotive
9 mentions across 3 clauses
+6 positive -3 negative

Automobile manufacturers, Electric vehicle manufacturers, Internal combustion engine manufacturers

Positive-direction: Automobile manufacturers, Internal combustion engine manufacturers, Internal combustion engine vehicle makers

Negative-direction: Electric vehicle manufacturers

Oil & Gas
3 mentions across 3 clauses
+3 positive

Oil and gas industry

Government
3 mentions across 3 clauses
+1 positive -2 negative

EPA

EPA faces effects in multiple directions

1/3
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Transportation Technology
Actor Mappings
"administrator_of_epa"
→ Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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