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119-hr-7850119th CongressWALLET

Farm Freedom to Repair Act

Sponsored By: Representative Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a limited safe harbor in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing digital farm equipment. The bill would add a new subsection to 17 U.S.C. 1201 to allow circumvention of technological locks and the manufacture or distribution of repair tools when the sole purpose is diagnosing, maintaining, or repairing covered agricultural equipment.

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  • Farmers and equipment owners: Could bypass embedded software locks to diagnose and repair machines without running afoul of anti-circumvention rules.
  • Independent technicians and repair shops: Could make, import, sell, or provide tools, devices, parts, or software needed for repair without triggering trafficking prohibitions when used for diagnosis or repair.
  • Product scope: Covers "digital electronic agricultural equipment," defined as agricultural products that depend in whole or in part on attached or embedded digital electronics to function.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Easier repairs for farm equipment

This bill would let owners and repairers bypass some digital locks on qualifying farm machines to diagnose, maintain, or repair them. It would also let people make, sell, import, or provide repair tools, devices, parts, or services for that purpose without violating certain anti‑circumvention rules. The protection would apply only to "digital electronic agricultural equipment," meaning agricultural products that depend at least partly on attached or embedded digital electronics. If enacted, it would not create new funding or new programs.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]

IN • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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