USHB-7850Introduced

Farm Freedom to Repair Act

Jurisdiction:: United States (federal)
Type:: Right to Repair
Last action:: Mar 5, 2026

ElectronicsAgriculture

Next steps for producers

Review this measure’s obligations and confirm whether they reach your products

Applies toNot specified in the bill

Obligations under this law

·No affirmative obligations imposed on producers; the bill creates exemptions from DMCA anti-circumvention liability for persons performing diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment

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Bill amends copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 1201) to create a right-to-repair exemption for digital electronic agricultural equipment, permitting circumvention of technological access controls and manufacture of repair tools for diagnosis, maintenance, and repair—a direct advance of right-to-repair policy in the agricultural equipment sector.

Covered Products

·Digital electronic agricultural equipment — any agricultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function

Producer Obligations

·No affirmative obligations imposed on producers; the bill creates exemptions from DMCA anti-circumvention liability for persons performing diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment

Exemptions

·Circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work is not a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A) when done for the purpose of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment
·Manufacturing, importing, offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof is not a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(2) when done for the purpose of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment
·Manufacturing, importing, offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof is not a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1201(b)(1) when done for the purpose of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment

Producer Definition

Not specified in the bill

Enforcement

Not specified in the bill (underlying enforcement remains under existing 17 U.S.C. § 1201 framework): Not specified in the bill

Preemption Notes

Federal bill amending 17 U.S.C. § 1201 (DMCA); creates a federal floor exemption for agricultural equipment repair from copyright anti-circumvention provisions. Does not expressly preempt state right-to-repair laws; may interact with state-level agricultural right-to-repair statutes.

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Full bill text

I 119TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 7850 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 5, 2026 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 elec- tronic agricultural equipment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Farm Freedom to Re-4 pair Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 19:41 Mar 18, 2026 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7850.IH H7850kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 •HR 7850 IH SEC. 2. DIAGNOSIS, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF CER-1 TAIN DIGITAL ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL 2 EQUIPMENT. 3 Section 1201 of title 17, United States Code, is 4 amended by adding at the end the following new sub-5 section: 6 ‘‘(l) D IAGNOSIS, M AINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF 7 DIGITAL ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT.—(1) 8 Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), it 9 is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the 10 purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital 11 electronic agricultural equipment, to circumvent a techno-12 logical measure that effectively controls access to a work 13 protected under this title. 14 ‘‘(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 15 (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, 16 for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair 17 of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufac-18 ture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traf-19 fic in any technology, product, service, device, component, 20 or part thereof described in that subsection. 21 ‘‘(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 22 (b)(1), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, 23 for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair 24 of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufac-25 ture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traf-26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 19:41 Mar 18, 2026 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7850.IH H7850kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 3 •HR 7850 IH fic in any technology, product, service, device, component, 1 or part thereof described in that subsection. 2 ‘‘(4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term 3 ‘digital electronic agricultural equipment’ means any agri-4 cultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon at-5 tached or embedded digital electronics to function.’’. 6 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 19:41 Mar 18, 2026 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H7850.IH H7850kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB

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