BUSES Act

This bill would change the Clean Air Act so that state air quality plans cannot include, and states or local governments cannot enforce through those plans, engine idling limits on over-the-road buses or school buses that idle for less than 15 minutes. It would bar any person from filing a citizen lawsuit under the Clean Air Act against bus owners or operators over those idling limits. It would also bar states and local governments from running programs that pay private individuals for reporting or enforcing idling violations by over-the-road buses, and would require existing programs of this kind to end within 180 days.

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Sponsors

• Nicholas A. Langworthy Republican sponsor
• 3 cosponsors