Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states

I want to think you're right, but most of the activation I've seen on RtR is from people who are mechanics and others whose livelihoods are threatened by this (like farmers). Most consumers (at least in my small sample of anecdata) don't seem to care at all for whatever reason. The ones who do are a small enough group to be safely ignored.

Also farmers, who have been turned upside down and shaken by John Deere and other manufacturers using locked down hardware. The farming lobby is powerful.

there are ways to omit the right to repair. My mechanic told me story about the new emergency system (mandatory in EU) that calls automatically for help on the crash event. It has a battery and a small controller in a all-in-one module. If the battery goes down - it will stop working and require replacing. If you replace only the battery it won't work. Not sure if you can replace battery while maintaining voltage, but this might be impedimented using plastic cover or something like that.

The new module costs 500$

From what I can tell the only mechanics who care are trying to illegally bypass emmissions controls, or they are trying to run a chop shop steeling cars for parts. Cars are very repairable outside a dealer for most things.

though I'm told tesla is an exception and they are unrepairable - I don't drive one so I wouldn't know.

the above is my personal opinion. My employeer has an opinion on this subject, but I don't speak for them.

Thanks for the feedback! Fellow Tennessean here so I'm a bit embarrassed. I fixed the Make your voice heard embed (we removed a CallPower integration).

I'm working on fixing the letter now.

We built this tech when having five or six states with bills was exciting. Now, 50 states times two chambers times sometimes two or three bills has become a whole thing to keep track of it all.

Keeping all of these bills up to date across 50 states that change every year is quite the project. It's a pretty manual process right now, alas. I'd love to automate it.

Everyone else: please thread any bill year mismatch / other issues you find here, and I'll fix them!

Proposed would have been more accurate, for the average person.

And those that have passed, are not necessarily universal. For example, Californias (I think) only applies to electronics, not cars. The John Deere "thing" is still a "thing" in California. The CA law is mostly about iPhones.

I don't know if they have other bills and what not in play to address other industries.

You are correct, something is not in sync with that map and their description. That is, their description says that five states have passed legislation: New York, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Colorado. But in the "Passed" and "Active and Passed" categories on the map, it includes those 5 states plus Massachusetts.

FWIW, all of the searching I could find about Right to Repair laws in Massachusetts focused solely on vehicle right to repair (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Massachusetts_Question_1), not on electronic devices generally, so maybe that's why Massachusetts was not included in the description (which specifically said "passed electronics right to repair legislation") but was categorized on the map.

Hi all! I volunteer with repair.org to create the map on repair.org/legislation and saw this thread. I'm sorry for the confusion!

I have updated the map to remove MA from the "Passed" or "Active and Passed" category given the law that has passed is related to automotive and our focus is more on digital electronics equipment.

I also updated the legend to address some of the valid concerns mentioned here:

Dark Red = Active in 2025 (or current year); Light Red = Active before 2025; Red and Black = Law Passed & Currently Active; Black = Law Passed

Maybe they're excluded because they've already been praised, and they're focused on the new states joining in? I assume "active and passed" means that they not only passed the laws, but they are currently in effect. A law being passed doesn't necessarily put it into immediate effect.

Based on what I know about one of the states in question, I'm thinking that "Active and Passed" means they have both a passed bill and an active bill that isn't passed. Though I'd think they'd call that "Passed and Current" to match their other nomenclature.

that last sentence is great.