TELL US: Do You Plan to Skip the 'Right to Repair' Ballot Question?
Advocates on both sides of the issue are urging voters not to override the compromise bill passed this summer.
In light of the compromise bill passed July 31, both sides of the "right to repair" debate have begun a campaign urging voters not to vote on the ballot question next month. Though the Legislature passed a compromise bill, the deadline for removing the question from the ballot had passed weeks earlier, on July 3. "Although it was too late to take this question off the ballot, people can feel confident that the issue has been addressed by the Legislature," Art Kinsman, the spokesman for the Right to Repair Coalition, said at the State House last week. Under the bill, automakers would be required make available to independent mechanics all repair codes and other diagnostic information but have time to satisfy a mandate that all new cars …
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Julia Gentile
9:41 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
"Right to repair" is now moot....the legislature passed a compromise bill that satisfies both sides. more ›