# 119-hr-6200: ESSENTIAL Act

119-hr-6200, ESSENTIAL Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6200
- Congress: 119
- Title: ESSENTIAL Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-11-20
- Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Stops federal actions that promote engine idle start-stop systems.** The bill would require the EPA Administrator and the Secretary of Transportation to repeal any agency action that encourages, incentivizes, promotes, or requires manufacturers to equip vehicles with engine idle start-stop technology, while allowing an exception if repeal would increase the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. - Vehicle manufacturers would no longer face federal encouragement or requirements to install engine idle start-stop systems on cars and trucks. - The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation would have to repeal covered actions within 1 year and may not issue similar rules going forward. - Repeals are blocked if they would raise carbon monoxide poisoning risk, preserving that safety constraint. - Agencies must send a joint initial report to Congress within 180 days and a final joint report within 1 year describing how they carried out the repeals.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1] (R-ID), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Stops federal promotion of start-stop tech: mixed, high. This bill would require the EPA Administrator and the Secretary of Transportation to find and repeal any agency action that specifically pushes carmakers to install engine idle start-stop systems. It would define start-stop as any system that turns the engine off when a vehicle stops and restarts i…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-2709: Save Our Sequoias Act
- 119-hr-1897: ESA Amendments Act of 2025
- 119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
- 119-hr-1383: Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-7: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-6200 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6200)

## Related
- [119-hr-2709: Save Our Sequoias Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2709)
- [119-hr-1897: ESA Amendments Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1897)
- [119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-21)
- [119-hr-1383: Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1383)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-7: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6200 (as of 2026-04-21).