The bill originally was going to make available to customers and independent service centers the same parts and manuals that manufacturer repair centers have. The governor edited the bill slightly in a way that makes it almost useless now. It was edited to say that manufacturers don't have to provide parts if they think that there's a safety issue. They can just make a "full assembly" available rather than individual parts. This means that if you have a $800 device, and a $10 part can fix it, but the manufacturer decides that it's a "safety issue" to sell anything less than a $700 "motherboard assembly" then this negates the entire purpose of right to repair. He says "this bill allows for malicious compliance in a way that makes it functionally useless".

Seems conceivable that this could come back to bite a manufacturer. For example, more cause for "safety recalls", or need to admit in testimony that a major assembly "had a known safety issue". Or might dealers be on the hook for higher certifications of repair technicians?

I'd also note (assuming the local news I saw had it right), that the changes also only require manufacturers to provide such "assemblies" if and only if they are manufactured in New York state after June 1, 2023.

The news may have it wrong, but that's an oddly specific claim to wrongly make, IMHO.

I watched the video at 2x speed. For me, he is perfectly understandable at that speed.

He doesn't babble that much in this one, it's just a brief interview.

It's pretty short. But you can also read the transcript here. https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=7xGBB-717AI