New York S 4655: Relates to the sale of digital electronic equipment and providing diagnostic and repair information

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S04655 Summary:

BILL NOS04655 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08405

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SPONSORFAHY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §399-nn, Gen Bus L; amd §3, Chap 810 of 2022

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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.

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BILL NOS04655 

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02/10/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1409

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/12/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4655

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer 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:

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (m) of subdivision 1, paragraphs
 2 (a), (g), (h), (i) and (j) of subdivision 3, paragraphs (d) and (e) of
 3 subdivision 4, and the opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section
 4 399-nn of the general business law, paragraphs (a), (b) and (m) of
 5 subdivision 1, paragraphs (a) and (g) of subdivision 3, and the opening
 6 paragraph of subdivision 6, as amended and paragraphs (h), (i) and (j)
 7 of subdivision 3, and paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 4, as added
 8 by chapter 48 of the laws of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
 9 (a) "Authorized repair provider" means an individual or business who
 10 has an arrangement with the original equipment manufacturer under which
 11 the original equipment manufacturer grants to the individual or business
 12 a license to use a trade name, service mark, or other proprietary iden-
 13 tifier for the purposes of offering the services of diagnosis, mainte-
 14 nance, or repair of digital electronic equipment under the name of the
 15 original equipment manufacturer, or other arrangement with the original
 16 equipment manufacturer to offer such services on behalf of the original
 17 equipment manufacturer. An original equipment manufacturer who offers
 18 the services of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of its own digital
 19 electronic equipment shall be considered an authorized repair provider
 20 with respect to such equipment.

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

 S. 4655 2

 1 (b) "Digital electronic equipment" or "equipment" means any hardware
 2 product manufactured for the first time, and first sold or used in New
 3 York on or after July first, two thousand [twenty-three, that depends
 4 for its functioning, in whole or in part, on digital electronics embed-
 5 ded in or attached to the product] twenty-one, for which the original
 6 equipment manufacturer makes available tools, parts, and documentation
 7 either through authorized repair providers, its own employees, or any
 8 authorized third-party providers ["Digital electronic equipment" or
 9 "equipment" does not include any product sold under a specific busi-
 10 ness-to-government or business-to-business contract, which is not other-
 11 wise offered for sale directly by a retail seller].
 12 (m) "Part" or "parts" means any replacement part or assembly of parts,
 13 either new or used, made available by an original equipment manufacturer
 14 for purposes of effecting the services of maintenance or repair of
 15 digital el