Despite industry best efforts to prevent it, the "right to repair" movement shows no sign of slowing down. This week, Minnesota was the latest state to pass a new right to repair law. State lawmakers added right to repair provisions to an omnibus bill (SF 2774) after obtaining bipartisan support across both chambers. The language requires electronics…
Right-to-repair allows the public to access parts without any restrictions from manufacturers. In a win for Colorado's general public, its Right-to-repair law was already signed and approved by its governor, and this will give them access to parts and manuals to carry out the fix for themselves.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Digital Fair Repair Act making New York first state to pass consumer electronics right-to-repair law. Similar bills are pending in other states. Act is slimmed down version of bill passed last July.
The bill excludes electronics for enterprise and lets OEMs give consumers “assemblies of parts,” rather than single, specific components needed for a repair.