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Nevada lawmakers push for bill to curb growing e-waste problem
CARSON CITY --- A growing movement to fix America’s repair problems reached the Silver State on Tuesday when Nevada Assemblywoman Selena Torres introduced a bill (AB 221) to liberate the electronics repair economy from the restrictive trade practices of many tech manufacturers. Torres’ bill, co-sponsored by four other members in the Assembly (Peters, Watts, Considine, and Duran), would require consumer electronics manufacturers to make “repair essentials” --- such as parts, tools, software, diagrams, etc. --- available for products priced between $100 and $5,000 at a fair and reasonable price. Manufacturers routinely limit the availability of these repair essentials as a means of monopolizing the repair market on their products, oftentimes disincentivizing repair and incentivizing new purchases.