Right to Repair Passed in New Jersey Assembly! Posted on October 28th
New Jersey is almost there. All the bill needs no is State Senate approval and the people of New Jersey have made a giant leap in repair rights. If you live in New Jersey, now is the time to contact your senate representative about the pending Right To Repair legislation! Heck, if you live in Arizona and give a damn, call New Jersey and pretend, they won’t know the difference!As reported first on RightToRepair.org, the New Jersey Assembly today passed the Motor Vehicle OwnersÂ’ Right to Repair Act (A-803) by a vote of 49 in favor, 22 against and 8 abstaining. Introduced by Assemblyman Reid Gusciora (D-Mercer), the Right to Repair Act ensures that New Jersey independent repair shops will have the same access to service information, tools and software that vehicle manufacturers make available to their new car dealers.
Passage by the Assembly came only days after the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee approved the Right Repair Act by a 3-2 vote. During the hearing, independent repair shops from around the state testified about the problems they experience in obtaining access to information and tools needed to repair their customersÂ’ vehicles. Shop owners explained that they often are forced to tell their customers that the dealer is the only place to go for certain repairs or, in some cases, they will take the vehicle back to the dealer themselves rather than tell the customer they cannot complete the repair.