# H.J.Res. 87 (119th): This joint resolution revokes waivers granted to the California Air Resources Board regarding several of its regulations, including the Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty Regulations and Maintenance Provisions

This joint resolution revokes waivers granted to the California Air Resources Board regarding several of its regulations, including the Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty Regulations and Maintenance Provisions. (Under the Clean Air Act, California may seek waivers of the preemption prohibiting states from enacting certain emission standards.) Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency notice titled California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision .

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: commerce_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federal_preemption. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federalism. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_disapproval. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_federalism. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: state_authority. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: vehicle_emissions. 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 111: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 278: On the Motion to Proceed H.J.Res. 87. Vote type: cloture.
Roll 279: On the Joint Resolution H.J.Res. 87. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill does not directly advance or restrain a named moral evil. It reverses a federal waiver that enabled state emission standards, which combines legitimate environmental and public-health goods with real questions about federalism, regulatory burden, and the proper scope of state authority. This is a prudential dispute in which both sides invoke goods, so 'mixed' is the appropriate classification.
Theological note: The measure raises issues of stewardship of God's creation and care for the air neighbors breathe, weighed against the proper distribution of civil authority between federal and state governments and the prudential question of how emission rules should be set. These are matters of civil judgment on which Scripture gives general principles rather than a direct verdict on this specific rule.

## Recorded votes

Roll 111: On Passage. Yea 231 · Nay 191 · Other 11.
Roll 278: On the Motion to Proceed H.J.Res. 87. Yea 51 · Nay 46 · Other 3.
Roll 279: On the Joint Resolution H.J.Res. 87. Yea 51 · Nay 45 · Other 4.

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