Farm Freedom to Repair Act

Bill: 118-hr-6879
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-12-19
Policy area: Commerce
Latest action: action_date: 2023-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6879 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2023 Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Farm Freedom to Repair Act . 2. Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment Section 1201 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (l) Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b)(1), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection. (4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term digital electronic agricultural equipment means any agricultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function. .