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The bill substantially expands owners' and independent repairers' legal access to parts, tools, and documentation—improving repairability, competition, and safety oversight—while risking higher equipment costs, increased IP/cybersecurity exposure, and added regulatory and litigation burdens that could be passed to end users.
Farmers, equipment owners, and small operators gain lawful access to parts, software/firmware, diagnostic documentation, and repair tools on fair terms, reducing downtime and out-of-service losses.
Independent and local repair providers can obtain necessary tools, circumvention aids where needed, and use common tools to perform repairs, preserving competition in repair services and keeping repair dollars local.
The bill enables security research and prohibits disabling safety/emissions controls, and aligns new requirements with the Clean Air Act—helping protect public health, equipment safety, and resilience against malicious exploitation.
OEMs may face higher compliance costs and lost revenue from proprietary services, and those costs are likely to be passed on to buyers as higher equipment prices, increasing capital costs for farmers and small operators.
Wider availability of firmware, diagnostic tools, and DMCA carve‑outs could increase intellectual‑property theft and cybersecurity risks, potentially enabling malicious actors to exploit equipment or copy proprietary software.
Expanded enforcement powers and daily civil penalties (including large per‑day fines) create litigation exposure and cumulative liabilities that could bankrupt or heavily burden smaller OEMs and increase costs across the supply chain.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Requires farm equipment makers to provide parts, tools, software/firmware, documentation, and owner data to owners and independent repair providers on fair and reasonable terms and creates limited DMCA carve-outs for repair.
Introduced October 28, 2025 by Marie Gluesenkamp Perez · Last progress October 28, 2025
Requires manufacturers of farm equipment to provide owners and independent repair providers with documentation, parts, tools, software/firmware, and owner-generated equipment data on fair and reasonable terms so equipment can be diagnosed, maintained, updated, reprogrammed, or repaired. Creates limited DMCA exceptions to allow circumvention and repair-related tools, directs the FTC to enforce the law as an unfair or deceptive practice with a tiered per-day civil penalty scheme for violators, and directs rulemaking consistent with federal emissions rules while protecting certain trade secrets and prohibiting illegal or safety‑defeating modifications.