Intermediate2h 22m # US State Right-to-Repair Compliance for Electronics Manufacturers The complete US right-to-repair compliance course for electronics manufacturers — nine enacted state laws covered in real depth, the parts-pairing battleground reshaping product design, fair-and-reasonable-terms pricing, documentation obligations, the federal DMCA overlay, and a full practical compliance program. A laptop manufacturer keeps selling replacement batteries only through its authorized service network, unaware that California's Right to Repair Act now requires those same parts be sold to independent shops and consumers on fair and reasonable terms — and faces daily civil penalties the moment a complaint reaches the state's Bureau of Household Goods and Services. A smart-home device maker ships a new sensor line using serialized component pairing to lock replacement parts to a specific unit, discovering only after launch that Oregon and Colorado now ban exactly that practice outright. A national electronics brand assumes one nationwide repair policy covers every state, missing that New York's law, California's price-tiered retention windows, and Texas's prospective-only effective date each impose genuinely different obligations on the same product line. None of this is exotic — it's the ordinary result of treating right-to-repair as a public-relations question instead of the real, state-by-state compliance program it actually requires. This course teaches US state right-to-repair compliance for electronics manufacturers from first principles to complete practical compliance. It starts with why there's no federal right-to-repair law for electronics, how the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and FTC Act still reach unfair repair restrictions anyway, and the scope and threshold framework — covered products, exclusions, wholesale-price tiers, and effective-date models — that determines whether any given product is covered at all. You'll then work through nine enacted state laws in genuine depth, not headline summary: New York's first-mover Digital Fair Repair Act, California's price-tiered Right to Repair Act, Minnesota's broad retroactive-lookback law, Colorado's and Oregon's parts-pairing bans, and the newer wave from Washington, Connecticut, Texas, and Kansas. The course then turns to the cross-cutting requirements every compliant program has to get right regardless of state: parts pairing as the emerging design-level battleground, what "fair and reasonable terms" actually means in enforcement practice, documentation and technical-manual obligations, parts and tools pricing and availability, the security and trade-secret carve-outs every state preserves, and the separate federal DMCA Section 1201 layer that can still block a repair even where state law requires access. A dedicated module covers real enforcement precedent, including the FTC's landmark 2026 settlement with Deere & Company, before a full, realistic walkthrough of one national electronics manufacturer building its compliance program from scratch, the common mistakes that trip up even careful teams, and your own concrete ninety-day compliance action plan. Built on Krono's regulatory database and current 2026 research, covering New York's Digital Fair Repair Act, California's SB 244, Minnesota's Digital Fair Repair Act, Colorado's HB24-1121, Oregon's SB 1596, Washington's HB 1483, Connecticut's SB 1217, Texas's HB 2963, and Kansas's HB 2700, as they stood at the time of this course's production. This course contains the use of artificial intelligence for asthetic purposes. * Includes the ebook edition, free * 8 downloadable resources included ## What you'll learn * Design around parts-pairing bans without abandoning legitimate serialization, calibration, or security uses * Build a genuine "fair and reasonable terms" pricing program that survives real scrutiny * Publish documentation and set up parts/tools access that satisfies the parity standard every state uses * Apply security and trade-secret exceptions narrowly and defensibly, and track the separate federal DMCA layer * Build a real, ongoing national compliance program instead of a reactive, state-by-state scramble ## Requirements * ·No prior legal background required — the course builds every concept from first principles * ·A working knowledge of your own product line and authorized service network is helpful but not required * ·Electronics manufacturers, compliance and legal teams, and hardware startups selling into US markets will all benefit $149.00 One-time purchase · Lifetime access · No subscription Less than one hour with a compliance consultant. [First lesson free to preview: US State Right-to-Repair Compliance for Electronics Manufacturers](#lesson-5440b665-b928-4f5b-a0ce-961779f853ad) * Map the US right-to-repair landscape and know exactly which state laws apply to each product line * Understand the scope, exclusion, and wholesale-price-threshold framework behind every state's statute * Work through New York, California, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Texas, and Kansas in genuine depth Includes the ebook edition, free — read it in your [library](/profile/books) after purchase. Enroll — $149.00 Secure checkout via Paddle Not what you expected? Contact us within 14 days. Built from a regulatory graph already at work 1,506 users this week 661 guides 323 product types 9 markets ## Course content 215 lessons·1732 min total The Big Picture 13 lessons · 127 min * US State Right-to-Repair Compliance for Electronics Manufacturers Preview9:47 * Three Ordinary Failures 9:47 * What Right-to-Repair Actually Means 9:47 * The Compliance Map 9:47 * Five Real Products, Five Real Trip-Ups 9:47 * How This Course Is Structured 9:47 * Who This Course Is For 9:47 * Where Does Your Product Line Stand Today? 9:47 * Why Electronics Manufacturers Specifically 9:47 * The Premium Compliance Mindset 9:47 * How This Differs From Europe's Approach 9:47 * A Note on Course Currency 9:47 * Knowledge Check — The Big Picture 9:47 The Regulatory Framework 15 lessons · 169 min Scope & Who Must Comply 14 lessons · 141 min New York — Digital Fair Repair Act 12 lessons · 96 min California — Right to Repair Act (SB 244) 10 lessons · 64 min Minnesota — Digital Fair Repair Act 10 lessons · 60 min Colorado — Right to Repair Consumer Electronic Equipment 11 lessons · 80 min Oregon — SB 1596 and the Parts-Pairing Ban 10 lessons · 63 min The Newer Wave: Washington, Connecticut, Texas & Kansas 13 lessons · 121 min Parts Pairing: The Emerging Battleground 12 lessons · 106 min "Fair and Reasonable Terms" 11 lessons · 76 min Documentation & Technical Manuals 11 lessons · 80 min Parts & Tools: Pricing and Availability 11 lessons · 73 min Security, Trade Secrets & Anti-Circumvention 10 lessons · 63 min DMCA Section 1201: The Federal Copyright Overlay 10 lessons · 63 min Enforcement, Penalties & the FTC-Deere Precedent 11 lessons · 81 min Full Walkthrough: A National Electronics Manufacturer 15 lessons · 138 min Your Compliance Action Plan 15 lessons · 131 min What's Next 1 lessons · 0 min Enroll — $149.00