Colo. to Allow Consumer Electronics Repair
Colorado will be the fifth state with a right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics. Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed HB-1121 on Tuesday. Consumer Reports applauded. “In this legislative season we have seen Oregon and Colorado pass comprehensive right to repair laws…
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that also cover parts pairing, and we hope to see further legislative action to prevent software from becoming a tool to enforce manufacturers’ monopolies on the repair process,” said CR Tech Policy Director Justin Brookman. Parts pairing is a manufacturer practice of using software to identify component parts through a unique identifier. Oregon made a similar law in March (see 2403270066. California, New York and Minnesota enacted digital right-to-repair laws previously. Also, Polis signed HB-1234 to indefinitely extend the state's high-cost support mechanism, which provides subsidies to a dozen rural telecom providers and is scheduled to sunset Sept. 1. The legislature passed the bill last month (see 2404220051).