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> They're going to kill the independent repair industry.

This bill does not kill anything that is not already dead.

This. The parts and information in question are already hard to get and aren’t being sold to authorized repair providers.

It places the minimum bar at known place, and that known place is anti-consumer. So now all companies know that they don't have to any more than have a certified repair center program.

What's that you sa? The requirements on certification are impossibly high. Oh noes.

There is presently no bar whatsoever.

Any bar at all is an improvement over what presently exists, wherein: There is a vacuous void.

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