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The bill removes federal penalties and enforcement around vehicle emissions—lightening legal burdens and clearing some past convictions for industry and individuals—but it risks worse air quality, higher health and environmental costs, weakened federal protections, and shifts regulatory burdens to states.
Vehicle manufacturers, importers, and distributors face reduced federal legal risk and lower compliance costs because federal penalties for selling vehicles lacking emissions controls are removed.
Individuals previously sentenced for removing or lacking emissions controls have their imprisonment sentences vacated, reducing legal penalties and consequences for those persons.
People with past civil or criminal findings for lacking or removing emissions controls will have those records expunged, potentially improving their employment and licensing prospects.
Urban residents and vulnerable populations (children, seniors) could experience worse air quality and higher respiratory and other pollution-related health risks if more vehicles emit without controls.
Environmental quality and climate outcomes could worsen because the bill allows sale or import of higher-polluting vehicles, increasing local pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
The EPA's reduced ability to regulate emissions devices weakens longstanding federal consumer and public-health protections, leaving fewer federal safeguards against harmful vehicle pollution.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bans federal requirements and enforcement for vehicle emissions control devices and onboard diagnostics, voids existing federal regulations, removes related federal liability, and expunges covered federal penalties/records.
Introduced March 25, 2026 by Mike Collins · Last progress March 25, 2026
Prohibits any federal law, regulation, or Executive order from requiring motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine manufacturers, importers, or distributors to install, certify, or maintain emissions control devices or onboard diagnostic systems. It bars the EPA Administrator from issuing or enforcing such requirements, eliminates federal civil and criminal liability for making, selling, importing, buying, using, or modifying vehicles or engines without those devices, voids existing federal regulations on those devices, and requires vacatur of imprisonment penalties and expungement of covered federal records.