119 HR 7850 IH: Farm Freedom to Repair Act U.S. House of Representatives 2026-03-05 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I119th CONGRESS2d SessionH. R. 7850IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESMarch 5, 2026Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryA BILLTo amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.

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Short title

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

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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..