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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Joint Memorial 8
Sponsored by Senator SOLLMAN; Senators CAMPOS, MEEK, REYNOLDS, WEBER, Representatives FRAGALA,
GAMBA, GOMBERG, GRAYBER, LIVELY, NELSON (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Asks the FTC and the NIST to create a score system that ranks for consumers how easy
or hard it is to repair tech devices. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
Requests that the Federal Trade Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology coordinate on and provide to manufacturers of electronic devices voluntary criteria for a one
through ten repair score that may be displayed to consumers at the point of sale.
JOINT MEMORIAL
To Lina M. Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Dr. Laurie Locascio, director
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):
We, your memorialists, the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legisla-
tive session assembled, respectfully represent as follows:
Whereas according to the Global E-waste Monitor of the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research, Americans throw out just shy of 8 million tons of electronic waste each year, or more
than 500 pounds of electronic waste each second; and
Whereas the United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that electronic waste is
now the fastest growing part of our domestic municipal waste stream; and
Whereas according to the United States Public Interest Research Group, an average American
family spends nearly $1,500 on new electronics per year, and fixable devices are a boon for those
whose budgets are squeezed by rising prices; and
Whereas according to the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, Oregonians could save
a combined $649 million if they were able to repair instead of replace electronics, extending the
lifespans of their electronic devices by 50 percent; and
Whereas the stated mission of the FTC is “protecting the public from deceptive or unfair busi-
ness practices and from unfair methods of competition through law enforcement, advocacy, research,
and education” and the commission voted unanimously in July 2021 to “closely coordinate with state
law enforcement and policymakers to ensure compliance and to update existing law and regulation
to advance the goal of open repair markets”; and
Whereas on July 9, 2021, the President of the United States signed the Executive Order on
Promoting Competition in the American Economy, which stated that “to address persistent and re-
current practices that inhibit competition, the Chair of the FTC, in the Chair’s discretion, is also
encouraged to consider working with the rest of the Commission to exercise the FTC’s statutory
rulemaking authority, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, in areas such as . . . unfair
anticompetitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of items, such as the restrictions
imposed by powerful manufacturers that prevent farmers from repairing their own equipment”; and
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1813
SJM 8
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Whereas a study cited in the FTC’s May 2021 report “Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Con-
gress on Repair Restrictions” states that “the lack of information concerning durable and repairable
products causes an asymmetry in the market balance and leaves consumers unable to make the best
buying decisions regarding to their own needs”; and
Whereas the stated mission of NIST is “to promote U.S. innovation and industrial
competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance
economic security and improve our quality of life”; and
Whereas lawmakers in Oregon have identified that consumers in this state do not have easy
access to trusted information on the repairability and longevity of electronics before they purchase
electronics or seek repair of the electronics they have purchased; and
Whereas right to repair scores for electronics such as laptop computers, cellular phones and
appliances would function similarly to Monroney stickers, which display essential information about
new automobiles, but for repairability, providing consumers with a one through ten repair score that
measures availability of spare parts, ease of disassembly and longevity of support; and
Whereas right to repair scores would inform consumers whether a product is easy to repair or
has a robust repair market, and would correct the asymmetry identified in the FTC’s May 2021 re-
port; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
That we, the members of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly, in order to promote consumer
choice, formally request the Federal Trade Commission and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology to coordinate and provide to manufacturers of electronic devices voluntary criteria for
a one through ten repair score that may be displayed to consumers at the point of sale; and be it
further
Resolved, That we ask the Federal Trade Commission and the National Institute of Standards
and Technology to determine the scoring criteria in coordination and to periodically update such
criteria; and be it further
Resolved, That this scoring criteria should include, but need not be limited to, the following
categories for determining a product’s final score: the free and public availability of technical doc-
uments regarding the product, the ease of disassembly of the product, the availability of spare parts
for the product, the price of spare parts for the product, the length of software support by the
manufacturer of the product and other criteria specific to the category of the product; and be it
further
Resolved, That a copy of this memorial shall be sent to Lina M. Khan, Chair of the Federal
Trade Commission, and Dr. Laurie Locascio, director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, and to each member of the Oregon congressional delegation.
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