New Yorkers Get Their Right To Repair Today. Here’s What You Need to Know.

The Empire State was the first to pass a broad, electronics right to repair law, and will be the first to see it take effect -and deal with the challenges of enforcement.

A year ago, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York signed a first-of-a-kind electronics right to repair law, leading the pack of states that would soon follow. After being overwhelmingly passed by a veto-proof bipartisan majority in the state legislature, the bill was trimmed by Governor Kathy Hochul at the behest of industry lobbyists, limiting its scope an…