Message-ID: <23433A2D-B8C8-42D2-9BC0-49D951421EE2@roscom.com>
Date: 31 Dec 2022 23:10:27 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: New York breaks the "Right To Repair" bill as it's signed
into law
The bill was signed by NY governor Kathy Hochul on December 28th,
making New York the first US state to broadly protect a consumer’s
right to repair their own tech.
By Cameron Faulkner
New York governor Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on
December 28th, 2022, and the law will go into effect on July 1st, 2023
— a full year after it was originally passed by the NY State
legislature. The bill establishes that consumers and independent
repair providers have a right to obtain manuals, diagrams, diagnostics
and parts from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in order to
repair their own devices. However, the bill was meaningfully
compromised at the last minute by amendments that give OEMs some
convenient exceptions and loopholes to get out of obligations that
many right to repair advocates had been hoping for.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/29/23530733/right-to-repair-law-new-york-tech-hochul-oems-parts