RPM Act of 2019

Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2019 or the RPM Act of 2019 [sic]

This bill authorizes the modification of a vehicle's air emission controls for vehicles that are not legal for operation on a street or highway and are used solely for competition.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3281 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3281

    To amend the Clean Air Act to provide an exemption from certain 
  antitampering provisions for certain actions for modifying a motor 
 vehicle that is not legal for operation on a street or highway and is 
       to be used solely for competition, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2021

Mr. McHenry (for himself, Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Pence, Mr. Webster 
   of Florida, Mr. Budd, Mr. Jordan, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Duncan, Mr. 
    LaHood, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. Perry, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Rogers of 
    Alabama, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Palmer, Mrs. Torres of 
    California, Mr. Massie, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Posey, Mr. Mullin, Mr. 
Burgess, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Young, Mr. Cooper, 
 Mr. Calvert, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Cawthorn, Ms. Bourdeaux, Mr. 
    Schrader, Ms. Brownley, Mrs. Lesko, Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. 
O'Halleran, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. 
 Panetta, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Thompson of 
   California, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Keller, Mr. 
  Stauber, and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Clean Air Act to provide an exemption from certain 
  antitampering provisions for certain actions for modifying a motor 
 vehicle that is not legal for operation on a street or highway and is 
       to be used solely for competition, 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 ``Recognizing the Protection of 
Motorsports Act of 2019'' or the ``RPM Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM ANTITAMPERING PROVISIONS.

    Section 203(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7522(a)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: ``No action with respect to any 
device or element of design referred to in paragraph (3) shall be 
treated as a prohibited act under that paragraph if the action is for 
the purpose of modifying a motor vehicle into a vehicle that is not 
legal for operation on a street or highway and is to be used solely for 
competition.''.

SEC. 3. REGULATION.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall finalize a 
regulation to implement the amendment made by this Act.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 2 shall take effect not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act without regard to whether a final regulation 
has been promulgated as required by section 3.
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