Gay Gordon-Byrne[/caption]
Legislative passage is inevitable, but it isn’t easy with roughly $28 trillion in market cap arrayed in opposition. Despite this ludicrous imbalance of financial power, polling consistently shows 90% approval among consumers without any obvious socio-economic, partisan or geographic bias.
In short, Right to Repair is going to happen.
Right to Repair legislative efforts are also reaching critical mass in terms of legislative and staff experience. In addition to the 20 bills that were filed, there were another half-dozen that were in the works during legislative sessions this year. We know this because opposition lobbyists in Big Agriculture were publicly fighting to block the mere filing. Even if no new bills are introduced in 2020, the continuation of existing bills can easily carry legislation to success.
We really need just one bill to become law and the dominoes will fall quickly.
There are already more state legislators setting up to file bills in 2020 - proof that momentum continues to build in our direction. Right to Repair remains solidly non-partisan, as proven by the wide variety of politicians who have found common cause on this issue.
Returning bills have more co-sponsors, more majority party leadership support, and the bills are often brought by committee chairs. These factors make it easier to move bills in new sessions, because debunking opposition FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) takes time.
Legislators tend to believe lobbyists working for iconic brand names when they claim repair will harm consumers (it doesn’t), that repair will create new opportunities for cyber-theft (it doesn’t) and will somehow (bizarrely) harm the environment. It takes time to debunk these assertions, which always slows the first pass at bills. Our best prospects for passage are the oldest bills, where legislators no longer believe lobbyists and are often angry they have been misled. FUD tends to backfire.
Twenty states officially filed variants of Right to Repair legislation in 2019. No bills have received a vote yet - which is normal and expected, given how hard it is to get all but the most trivial of bills passed.
[caption id="attachment_8023" align="alignright" width="216"] Gay Gordon-Byrne[/caption]
Legislative passage is inevitable, but it isn’t easy with roughly $28 trillion in market cap arrayed in opposition. Despite this ludicrous imbalance of financial power, polling consistently shows 90% approval among consumers without any obvious socio-economic, partisan or geographic bias.
In short, Right to Repair is going to happen.
Right to Repair legislative efforts are also reaching critical mass in terms of legislative and staff experience. In addition to the 20 bills that were filed, there were another half-dozen that were in the works during legislative sessions this year. We know this because opposition lobbyists in Big Agriculture were publicly fighting to block the mere filing. Even if no new bills are introduced in 2020, the continuation of existing bills can easily carry legislation to success.
We really need just one bill to become law and the dominoes will fall quickly.
There are already more state legislators setting up to file bills in 2020 - proof that momentum continues to build in our direction. Right to Repair remains solidly non-partisan, as proven by the wide variety of politicians who have found common cause on this issue.
Returning bills have more co-sponsors, more majority party leadership support, and the bills are often brought by committee chairs. These factors make it easier to move bills in new sessions, because debunking opposition FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) takes time.
Legislators tend to believe lobbyists working for iconic brand names when they claim repair will harm consumers (it doesn’t), that repair will create new opportunities for cyber-theft (it doesn’t) and will somehow (bizarrely) harm the environment. It takes time to debunk these assertions, which always slows the first pass at bills. Our best prospects for passage are the oldest bills, where legislators no longer believe lobbyists and are often angry they have been misled. FUD tends to backfire.
Gay Gordon-Byrne[/caption]
Legislative passage is inevitable, but it isn’t easy with roughly $28 trillion in market cap arrayed in opposition. Despite this ludicrous imbalance of financial power, polling consistently shows 90% approval among consumers without any obvious socio-economic, partisan or geographic bias.
In short, Right to Repair is going to happen.
Right to Repair legislative efforts are also reaching critical mass in terms of legislative and staff experience. In addition to the 20 bills that were filed, there were another half-dozen that were in the works during legislative sessions this year. We know this because opposition lobbyists in Big Agriculture were publicly fighting to block the mere filing. Even if no new bills are introduced in 2020, the continuation of existing bills can easily carry legislation to success.
We really need just one bill to become law and the dominoes will fall quickly.
There are already more state legislators setting up to file bills in 2020 - proof that momentum continues to build in our direction. Right to Repair remains solidly non-partisan, as proven by the wide variety of politicians who have found common cause on this issue.
Returning bills have more co-sponsors, more majority party leadership support, and the bills are often brought by committee chairs. These factors make it easier to move bills in new sessions, because debunking opposition FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) takes time.
Legislators tend to believe lobbyists working for iconic brand names when they claim repair will harm consumers (it doesn’t), that repair will create new opportunities for cyber-theft (it doesn’t) and will somehow (bizarrely) harm the environment. It takes time to debunk these assertions, which always slows the first pass at bills. Our best prospects for passage are the oldest bills, where legislators no longer believe lobbyists and are often angry they have been misled. FUD tends to backfire.
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