Freedom to Repair Act of 2022

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6566 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6566

 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, 
    maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic equipment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2022

Mr. Jones (for himself and Mrs. Spartz) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, 
    maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic 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 ``Freedom to Repair Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DIAGNOSIS, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF CERTAIN DIGITAL 
              ELECTRONIC 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 
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 
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 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 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) Nothing in this subsection applies to manufacturers or 
distributors of a medical device as defined in the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 321(h)) or a digital electronic 
product or embedded software manufactured for use in a medical setting 
including diagnostic, monitoring, or control equipment or any product 
or service that they offer.
    ``(5) For the purposes of this subsection, the term `digital 
electronic equipment' means any product dependent, in whole or in part, 
upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function.''.
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