[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6879 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6879

 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, 
  maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural 
                               equipment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2023

 Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, 
  maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural 
                               equipment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

SEC. 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:
    ``(l) Diagnosis, Maintenance, and Repair of Digital Electronic 
Agricultural Equipment.--(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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