Enacts the "farm equipment fair repair act"

Latest action Apr 28, 2026

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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Where it stands

Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A6601, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the General Business Law.

Committee

Consumer Affairs and Protection · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Consumer Protection · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill will require original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of farm equipment to make diagnostic and repair information for such equipment sold or used in this state available to consumers and independent repair providers. It also makes the equipment or service parts, including soft- ware updates, available for purchase by the owner of such equipment, authorized agents, or independent repair providers at fair and reason- able terms.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

Vote: Committee vote · Consumer Protection
Senate Consumer ProtectionApr 28, 2026Result: passed
(7) (0) (0) (0)
Vote: Committee vote · Consumer Protection
Senate Consumer ProtectionMar 11, 2025Result: passed
(7) (0) (0) (0)

Cosponsors

Patricia Fahy

Democratic1

Patricia Fahy

See the full list on nysenate.gov

The sponsor's argument

Why Rachel May says this is needed

This bill will protect farmers and agricultural communities with long traditions of repairing and maintaining their own equipment from the monopolistic repair practices of manufacturers. Farmers need to be able to repair their own equipment, if they choose, and that option must be restored to them. Repair is normal, legal, and necessary to keep our homes and businesses running. Nowhere is this truer than in the agricul- tural sector, where farmers have long assisted one another with repairs or made their own as necessary. Without fair and reasonable access to repair, farmers are limited to expensive and time-consuming repairs at a handful of facilities. With- out the ability to do on-site repairs themselves or options beyond cost- prohibitive proprietary services, equipment breakdown can result in lengthy and devastating delays during harvest or other highly time-sen- sitive moments in the growing season. Repairable equipment may be discarded and replaced with new equipment, as manufacturers often intend. This is costly to farmers and consumers alike, reducing the value of used equipment and increasing the cost of doing business. Limi- tations on repair also create perverse incentives for manufacturers to build less durable products. By providing fair and reasonable access to repair of farm equipment, the State will recognize the traditional self-reliance and ingenuity of its farming communities. This bill restores the right to repair farm equip- ment, ends the monopolistic repair practices of manufacturers, and opens the repair market to broader competition and all its benefits.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Apr 28, 2026
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE
NY Senate
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
NY Assembly
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
NY Senate
Mar 13, 2025
Amend (t) and Recommit to Consumer Affairs and Protection
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
NY Assembly
Mar 11, 2025
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE
NY Senate

Show full history (2 earlier events)

Mar 6, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
NY Assembly
Feb 28, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
NY Senate

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