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To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.
Summary
This bill amends federal copyright law to allow farmers and equipment owners to diagnose, maintain, and repair their own digital agricultural equipment. Specifically, it creates an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that permits circumventing digital locks on farm equipment for repair purposes. The bill also allows the manufacturing and distribution of tools and parts used for such repairs. The exemption applies to any agricultural equipment that relies on embedded or attached digital electronics to function.
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Sponsor (1)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Victoria Spartz’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $78,636
- INDIANA SPINE GROUP $22,800
- CDR HEALTH CARE, INC $6,600
- DILLON GAGE $6,600
- OGRE HOLDINGS $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Victoria Spartz → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Mar 5, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Mar 5, 2026 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 5, 2026
Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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.”. <all>
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