Headline is a bit misleading. It's not part of California state law yet. The bill needs to go back to the senate for a procedural vote, then needs to be signed into law by the Governor. It's probably a foregone conclusion that both those things will happen given the unanimous support for the bill, but I just wanted to point out that it's technically not a done-deal yet.

iFixit obviously has some vested interest in seeing this pass, but at the end of the day they've accomplished something great for the country. I can't wait to see how this actually impacts consumer products going forward.

For those wondering, the other two are Minnesota & New York.

Doesn’t this mean the whole country will basically have right to repair since New York and California are such large markets and you’ll be able to order parts from there?

I haven't followed this as closely as I should have, but I remember seeing a Louis ~~Grossman~~ Rossmann* vid (huge right to repair advocate) essentially throwing his hands up at the New York version of this, as it basically took all teeth out of the bill by providing loopholes for companies to bypass the requirements for "safety concerns." Is it the same situation in the other states?

*I have no excuse I'm just an idiot

Now make bandwidth caps illegal