The "Right to Repair" bill that would have allowed Massachusetts residents to get their vehicles fixed at a wider range of locations has failed to gain approval in by the Senate in July.
The bill never came up for a House vote before the end of legislative session last Saturday, news reports said.
It is bad news for Mass. drivers since the bill would have let them repair their cars at authorized dealerships and independent auto dealerships, since it would have required authorized dealerships to sell the correct codes, tools and information needed to repair cars to independent ones.
Without such information independent dealerships cannot repair many cars.
Opponents of the bill argue that releasing such proprietary information would give a competitive advantage to makers of generic parts.
If passed, Massachusetts would have become the first US state to pass such a measure.
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