Assembly Bill A8405

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the sale of digital electronic equipment and providing diagnostic and repair information

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8405 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4655
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §399-nn, Gen Bus L; amd §3, Chap 810 of 2022
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8955, S8492

2025-A8405 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Modifies what qualifies as an original equipment manufacturer and the manufacture date when hardware must comply with the right to repair law; repeals certain limitations on the right to repair law.

2025-A8405 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8405
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to the sale of
   digital electronic  equipment  and  providing  diagnostic  and  repair
   information; and to amend chapter 810 of the laws of 2022 amending the
   general business law relating to the sale of digital electronic equip-
   ment  and  providing diagnostic and repair information, in relation to
   the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (a), (b), and (m) of subdivision 1, paragraphs
 (a), (g), (h), (i) and (j) of subdivision 3, paragraphs (d) and  (e)  of
 subdivision  4,  and  the  opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section
 399-nn of the general business law,  paragraphs  (a),  (b)  and  (m)  of
 subdivision  1, paragraphs (a) and (g) of subdivision 3, and the opening
 paragraph of subdivision 6, as amended and paragraphs (h), (i)  and  (j)
 of  subdivision 3, and paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 4, as added
 by chapter 48 of the laws of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Authorized repair provider" means an individual or  business  who
 has  an arrangement with the original equipment manufacturer under which
 the original equipment manufacturer grants to the individual or business
 a license to use a trade name, service mark, or other proprietary  iden-
 tifier  for  the purposes of offering the services of diagnosis, mainte-
 nance, or repair of digital electronic equipment under the name  of  the
 original  equipment manufacturer, or other arrangement with the original
 equipment manufacturer to offer such services on behalf of the  original
 equipment  manufacturer.  AN  ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER WHO OFFERS
 THE SERVICES OF DIAGNOSIS, MAINTENANCE, OR REPAIR  OF  ITS  OWN  DIGITAL
 ELECTRONIC  EQUIPMENT  SHALL BE CONSIDERED AN AUTHORIZED REPAIR PROVIDER
 WITH RESPECT TO SUCH EQUIPMENT.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09271-01-5
 A. 8405                             2
              

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