[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5560 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5560

To permit California and other States to effectively control greenhouse 
       gas emissions from motor vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2008

Mr. Welch of Vermont (for himself, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Allen, Mr. Berman, 
Mr. Blumenauer, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Cardoza, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Courtney, Mr. 
   Crowley, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. 
  Dreier, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Farr, Mr. Hall of New York, Ms. 
Harman, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Hodes, Mr. Honda, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
  Kucinich, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Lee, Ms. Zoe 
    Lofgren of California, Mr. Markey, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McCollum of 
Minnesota, Mr. McDermott, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Michaud, Mr. George Miller 
of California, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. 
 Murphy of Connecticut, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Olver, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Payne, 
   Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Schiff, Mr. 
    Serrano, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Sires, Ms. Solis, Mr. Stark, Mrs. 
 Tauscher, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
 Wexler, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Wu, and Mr. Filner) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To permit California and other States to effectively control greenhouse 
       gas emissions from motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Right to Clean Vehicles Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF PREEMPTION FOR CALIFORNIA GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION 
              REGULATION FOR VEHICLES.

    Section 209 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Waiver.--Notwithstanding subsection (b) or any other 
provision of law, the application for a waiver of preemption dated 
December 21, 2005, submitted to the Administrator pursuant to 
subsection (b) by the State of California for the regulation of that 
State to control greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles shall be 
considered to be approved.''.
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