Florida SB 586: Firearms

Bill Text

586 
Repair of Mobility Devices 
2025-11-19T06:12:25Z 
Creating the “Right to Repair Act for Mobility Devices”; requiring original equipment manufacturers to make available documentation, parts, and tools required for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of mobility devices and parts for such devices; requiring original equipment manufacturers of mobility devices with electronic security locks to make available any special documentation, parts, and tools required to access and reset the locks when disabled in the course of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair; providing that violation of the act is an unlawful practice under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 586 

 By Senator Smith 

 17-00053A-26 2026586__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to repair of mobility devices; 
 3 creating part XIV of ch. 559, F.S., entitled “Repair 
 4 of Mobility Devices”; creating s. 559.971, F.S.; 
 5 providing a short title; creating s. 559.972, F.S.; 
 6 defining terms; creating s. 559.973, F.S.; requiring 
 7 original equipment manufacturers to make available 
 8 documentation, parts, and tools required for the 
 9 diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of mobility devices 
 10 and parts for such devices; requiring original 
 11 equipment manufacturers of mobility devices with 
 12 electronic security locks to make available any 
 13 special documentation, parts, and tools required to 
 14 access and reset the locks when disabled in the course 
 15 of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair; creating s. 
 16 559.974, F.S.; providing that violation of the act is 
 17 an unlawful practice under the Florida Deceptive and 
 18 Unfair Trade Practices Act; creating s. 559.975, F.S.; 
 19 providing that original equipment manufacturers are 
 20 not required to divulge trade secrets; providing that 
 21 the act does not alter the terms of an arrangement 
 22 between an authorized repair provider and an original 
 23 equipment manufacturer; providing an exception; 
 24 limiting the liability of original equipment 
 25 manufacturers and authorized repair providers in 
 26 certain circumstances; creating s. 559.976, F.S.; 
 27 providing applicability; providing an effective date. 
 28 
 29 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 30 
 31 Section 1. Part XIV of chapter 559, Florida Statutes, 
 32 consisting of ss. 559.971-559.976, is created and entitled 
 33 “Repair of Mobility Devices.” 
 34 Section 2. Section 559.971, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 35 read: 
 36 559.971 Short title.—This part may be cited as the “Right 
 37 to Repair Act for Mobility Devices.” 
 38 Section 3. Section 559.972, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 39 read: 
 40 559.972 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term: 
 41 (1) “Authorized repair provider” means an individual or a 
 42 business that has an arrangement with the original equipment 
 43 manufacturer under which the original equipment manufacturer 
 44 grants to the individual or business a license to use a trade 
 45 name, service mark, or other proprietary identifier for the 
 46 purposes of offering the services of diagnosis, maintenance, or 
 47 repair of a mobility device under the name of the original 
 48 equipment manufacturer, or other arrangement with the original 
 49 equipment manufacturer to offer such services on behalf of the 
 50 original equipment manufacturer. An original equipment 
 51 manufacturer that offers the services of diagnosis, maintenance, 
 52 or repair of its own mobility device, and that does not have an 
 53 arrangement with an unaffiliated individual or business, is 
 54 considered an authorized repair provider with respect to 
 55 mobility devices. 
 56 (2) “Documentation” means a manual, diagram, reporting 
 57 output, service code description, schematic diagram, security 
 58 code, password, or any other guidance or information used in 
 59 effecting the services of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of a 
 60 mobility device. 
 61 (3) “Fair and reasonable terms” means making available 
 62 documentation, tools, or parts as follows: 
 63 (a) Documentation made available by the original equipment 
 64 manufacturer at no charge, except that when a physical copy is 
 65 requested, a charge may be included for the reasonable actual 
 66 costs of preparing and sending the copy. 
 67 (b) Tools made available by the original equipment 
 68 manufacturer at no charge: 
 69 1. Without requiring authorization or Internet access for 
 70 use or operation of the tools. 
 71 2. Without imposing impediments to access or use the tools 
 72 to diagnose, maintain, or repair and enable full functionality 
 73 of digital electronic equipment. 
 74 3. In a manner that does not impair the efficient and cost 
 75 effective performance of any such diagnosis, maintenance, or 
 76 repair. 
 77 
 78 However, if a tool is requested in physi