New York S 5771: Enacts the "credit creation pilot program act of New York"

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S05771 Summary:

BILL NOS05771 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06601-A

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SPONSORMAY

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COSPNSRFAHY

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 33-C §§698 & 698-a, Gen Bus L

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Requires original manufacturers of agricultural equipment to make certain documentation, parts, and tools required for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of agricultural equipment available, on fair and reasonable terms, to independent repair providers and owners of agricultural equipment manufactured and sold on or after July 1, 2015.

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BILL NOS05771 

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02/28/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

03/11/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

04/28/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5771

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 enacting the
 "farm equipment fair repair act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "farm equipment fair repair act".
 3 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new article 33-C
 4 to read as follows:

 5 ARTICLE 33-C
 6 AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT RIGHT TO REPAIR

 7 Section 698. Definitions.
 8 698-a. Agricultural equipment repair; rights of consumers.
 9 § 698. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following
 10 terms shall have the following meanings:
 11 1. "Authorized repair provider" means an individual or business who
 12 has an arrangement with the original equipment manufacturer under which
 13 such original equipment manufacturer grants to such individual or busi-
 14 ness a license to use a trade name, service mark, or other proprietary
 15 identifiers for the purposes of offering the services of diagnosis,
 16 maintenance, or repair of agricultural equipment under the name of such
 17 original equipment manufacturer, or other arrangement with such original
 18 equipment manufacturer to offer such services on behalf of, or under
 19 contract to, such original equipment manufacturer. An original equipment
 20 manufacturer who offers the services of diagnosis, maintenance, or
 21 repair of its own agricultural equipment shall be considered an author-
 22 ized repair provider with respect to such equipment.
 23 2. "Agricultural equipment" or "equipment" means any device, instru-
 24 ment or machinery used in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, dairy
 25 farming, livestock farming, poultry and/or beef raising, forestry, prop-
 26 erty maintenance and in the production of any and all products raised or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09107-01-5

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 1 produced on farms and processed or manufactured products thereof, trans-
 2 ported or intended to be transported in interstate and/or foreign
 3 commerce.
 4 3. "Documentation" means any manual, maintenance procedures, func-
 5 tional and wiring diagrams, reporting output, service code description,
 6 board view file or complete PCB layout, PCB schematic, security code,
 7 password, training material, troubleshooting information, full list of
 8 required tools, full parts list, and other guidance or information used
 9 in effecting the services of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of agri-
 10 cultural equipment.
 11 4. "Embedded software" means any programmable instructions provided on
 12 firmware delivered with or loaded to agricultural equipment, with
 13 respect to such agricultural equipment's operation, including all rele-
 14 vant patches and fixes made by the manufacturer, including but not
 15 limited to items described as a basic internal operating system, an
 16 internal operating system, a machine code, an assembly code, a root
 17 code, or a microcode.
 18 5. "Fair and reasonable terms"