Farm Freedom to Repair Act
H.R. 7850119th Congress

Farm Freedom to Repair Act

Introduced in the HouseRep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5)6 sections · 1 min read
Version: Introduced in House · Mar 5, 2026

Section 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Farm Freedom to Repair Act.

Section 2. Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment

Section 1201 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b)(1), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection.

(4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term digital electronic agricultural equipment means any agricultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function.

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