# H.J.Res. 213 (119th): This joint resolution revokes the partial authorization granted to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to amend its Commercial Harbor Craft regulation

This joint resolution revokes the partial authorization granted to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to amend its Commercial Harbor Craft regulation. Among other elements, the amendments proposed by CARB and partially authorized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) create new emission standards and compliance dates depending on vessel category and engine model year and expand the types of vessels covered by the regulation (e.g. commercial fishing boats). (Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA may authorize California to adopt and enforce standards relating to the control of emissions from nonroad vehicles or engines if those standards meet certain requirements.) Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies the EPA authorization decision titled California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision .

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: air_quality. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: commercial_fishing. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_stewardship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federalism. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_overreach. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 311: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure disapproves an emissions regulation that pursues a real public-health and stewardship good, while also raising legitimate concerns about regulatory burden on commercial vessel operators, including fishing boats, and about federal-state authority under the Clean Air Act. The dispute is prudential, and the operative text does not directly advance or restrain a named moral harm.
Theological note: Scripture grounds stewardship of creation and care for neighbors, which bears on air quality and public health. It also grounds the honest exercise of lawful, limited government and the duty to avoid burdening work unjustly. This measure concerns how environmental protection and federal-state regulatory authority are balanced, a prudential question rather than a direct moral evil, so it is relevant to these concerns without warranting a firm moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 311: On Passage. Yea 214 · Nay 208 · Other 11.

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