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(a) FINDINGS- The Congress finds the following:
(1) The ability to diagnose, service, and repair a motor vehicle in a timely, reliable, and affordable manner is essential to the safety and well-being of automotive consumers in the United States.
(2) Consumers are entitled to choose among competing repair facilities for the convenient, reliable, and affordable repair of their motor vehicles.
(3) Increased competition among repair facilities will benefit vehicle owners in the United States.
(4) Computers of various kinds are increasingly being used in motor vehicle systems, such as pollution control, transmission, antilock brakes, electronic and mechanical systems, heating and air-conditioning, sound, and steering.
(5) The diagnosis, service, and repair of these vehicle systems are essential to the safety and proper operation of modern motor vehicles.
(6) In many instances, access codes prevent owners from making, or having made, the necessary diagnosis, service, and repair of their motor vehicles in a timely, convenient, reliable, and affordable manner.
(7) Consumers in the United States have benefited from the availability of an aftermarket parts supply, or parts and accessories used in the repair, maintenance, or enhancement of a motor vehicle. The American economy has also benefitted from the availability of an aftermarket parts supply that provides jobs to over 5 million workers in 495,000 businesses, and generates $200 billion in annual sales.
(8) Vehicle owners in the United States should have the right--
(A) to all information necessary to allow the diagnosis, service, and repair of their vehicles;
(B) to choose between original parts and aftermarket parts when repairing their motor vehicles; and
(C) to make, or have made, repairs necessary to keep their vehicles in reasonably good and serviceable condition during the expected vehicle life.
(9) The restriction of vehicle repair information limits who can repair motor vehicles and what parts may be used to repair those vehicles, which limits consumer choice and thus limits competition.
(10) The Congress has provided the Federal Trade Commission with broad authority to make and enforce rules to foster competition, to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce, and to protect consumers.
(b) PURPOSES- The purposes of this Act are the following:
(1) To require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe and enforce rules necessary to ensure the right of a motor vehicle owner to obtain all information required for the diagnosis, service, and repair of the motor vehicle.
(2) To ensure the safety of all vehicle owners by requiring disclosure of all information necessary for the proper diagnosis, service, and repair of a vehicle in a timely, affordable, and reliable manner.
(3) To encourage competition in the diagnosis, service, and repair of motor vehicles.
Andrew
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(a) FINDINGS- The Congress finds the following:
(1) The ability to diagnose, service, and repair a motor vehicle in a timely, reliable, and affordable manner is essential to the safety and well-being of automotive consumers in the United States.
(2) Consumers are entitled to choose among competing repair facilities for the convenient, reliable, and affordable repair of their motor vehicles.
(3) Increased competition among repair facilities will benefit vehicle owners in the United States.
(4) Computers of various kinds are increasingly being used in motor vehicle systems, such as pollution control, transmission, antilock brakes, electronic and mechanical systems, heating and air-conditioning, sound, and steering.
(5) The diagnosis, service, and repair of these vehicle systems are essential to the safety and proper operation of modern motor vehicles.
(6) In many instances, access codes prevent owners from making, or having made, the necessary diagnosis, service, and repair of their motor vehicles in a timely, convenient, reliable, and affordable manner.
(7) Consumers in the United States have benefited from the availability of an aftermarket parts supply, or parts and accessories used in the repair, maintenance, or enhancement of a motor vehicle. The American economy has also benefitted from the availability of an aftermarket parts supply that provides jobs to over 5 million workers in 495,000 businesses, and generates $200 billion in annual sales.
(8) Vehicle owners in the United States should have the right--
(A) to all information necessary to allow the diagnosis, service, and repair of their vehicles;
(B) to choose between original parts and aftermarket parts when repairing their motor vehicles; and
(C) to make, or have made, repairs necessary to keep their vehicles in reasonably good and serviceable condition during the expected vehicle life.
(9) The restriction of vehicle repair information limits who can repair motor vehicles and what parts may be used to repair those vehicles, which limits consumer choice and thus limits competition.
(10) The Congress has provided the Federal Trade Commission with broad authority to make and enforce rules to foster competition, to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce, and to protect consumers.
(b) PURPOSES- The purposes of this Act are the following:
(1) To require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe and enforce rules necessary to ensure the right of a motor vehicle owner to obtain all information required for the diagnosis, service, and repair of the motor vehicle.
(2) To ensure the safety of all vehicle owners by requiring disclosure of all information necessary for the proper diagnosis, service, and repair of a vehicle in a timely, affordable, and reliable manner.
(3) To encourage competition in the diagnosis, service, and repair of motor vehicles.
Andrew
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