Wins / Texas, June 2025
Texas enacts right-to-repair law for consumer electronics
Texas requires consumer-electronics makers to provide replacement parts, tools, and documentation on fair terms — the eighth state and the first Republican-led state to enact a right-to-repair law for electronics.
- Where
- Texas
- When
- June 2025
- What kind
- Legislation passed
- Issue
- Right to make and repair
- Work by
- Texas Public Policy Foundation, TexPIRG, The Repair Coalition
Why this is a partial win
The law expands what an owner can do with a device by imposing a duty on its maker to sell parts, tools and documentation on fair terms. That is a new obligation on one set of people to widen the choices of another. The ledger records it because the practical effect is that owners control property they paid for; readers who weigh the mandate more heavily will discount it, and the ledger says so.
Sources
Where to check it. Every entry on the ledger has at least two.
More from the ledger
Other entries from Texas and on the same issue.
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