CJ's Home Protection Act of 2007 - Requires the consensus committee established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, to develop and submit to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development proposed federal manufactured home construction and safety standards. Requires the Secretary to issue a final order promulgating the standard within 90 days after receiving the proposal.
Amends the Act to require such standards to require each manufactured home delivered for sale to be supplied with a weather radio: (1) capable of broadcasting emergency information relating to local weather conditions; (2) equipped with a tone alarm and Specific Alert Message Encoding, or SAME technology; and (3) compliant with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Standard 2009-A Performance Specification for Public Alert Receivers (or its current revision).
Exempts any aspect of the function, operation, performance, capabilities, or utilization of such weather radio or any related instructions from certain requirements regarding: (1) noncompliance with standards or defective nature of manufactured homes; (2) notification and correction of defects by such manufacturers; or (3) the Secretary's regulations pursuant to the authority under such Act.
Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on conditioning the applicability of the requirement to supply weather radios in manufactured homes on the geographic location at which a manufactured home is placed, but only to the extent that such requirement applies to new manufactured homes and new site-built homes.
[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2787 Introduced in House (IH)]
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2787
To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in
all manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the United States.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 20, 2007
Mr. Ellsworth (for himself, Ms. Granger, and Mr. Moore of Kansas)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Financial Services
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A BILL
To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in
all manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``CJ's Home Protection Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) nearly 20,000,000 Americans live in manufactured homes,
which often provide a more accessible and affordable way for
many families to buy their own homes;
(2) manufactured housing plays a vital role in providing
housing for low- and moderate-income families in the United
States;
(3) according to the Economic Statistics Report from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in April 2006
(5th Edition), residents of mobile homes remain at risk from
tornados, as over 40 percent of resulting fatalities occur in
mobile homes, and the fatality rate for residents of mobile
homes is more than 10 times greater than that for residents of
permanent homes;
(4) NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is a nationwide network of
radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information
directly from a nearby National Weather Service (NWS) office,
and broadcasts NWS warnings, watches, forecasts, and other all-
hazard information 24 hours a day;
(5) the operator of a mobile home community should be
encouraged to provide a safe place of shelter for park
residents or a plan for the evacuation of park residents to a
safe place of shelter within a reasonable distance of the park
for use by park residents in times of severe weather, including
tornadoes and high winds; and local municipalities should be
encouraged to require approval of these plans;
(6) twice each year, when Americans change their clocks for
daylight savings, the operator of a mobile home community
should be encouraged to provide a written reminder to the
owners of all manufactured homes in the mobile home community
to replace the batteries in all weather radios and smoke
detectors contained in their manufactured homes; and
(7) weather radio manufacturers should include, in the
packaging of weather radios, a written reminder to replace the
batteries twice each year and written instructions on how to do
so.
SEC. 3. FEDERAL MANUFACTURED HOME CONSTRUCTION AND SAFETY STANDARD.
Section 604 of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and
Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5403) is amended by adding at
the end the following new subsection:
``(h) Weather Radios.--
``(1) Construction and safety standard.--The Federal
manufactured home construction and safety standards established
by the Secretary under this section shall require that each
manufactured home delivered for sale shall be supplied with a
weather radio inside the manufactured home that--
``(A) is capable of broadcasting emergency
information relating to local weather conditions;
``(B) is equipped with a tone alarm;
``(C) is equipped with Specific Alert Message
Encoding, or SAME technology; and
``(D) complies with Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA) Standard 2009-A (or current revision
thereof) Performance Specification for Public Alert
Receivers.
``(2) Liability protection.--Any reminder, assistance, or
instructions provided by an operator of a mobile home community
concerning the function of a weather radio or smoke detector
contained in a manufactured home shall not subject the
operator, an owner or employee of the mobile home community, or
the mobile home manufacturer to liability for the functionality
of that weather radio or smoke detector.''.
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT.
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish the
Federal manufactured home construction and safety standard required by
the amendment made by section 3 of this Act by order in accordance with
section 604(b)(5) of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and
Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5403(b)(5)), which shall take
effect as provided in section 604(c) of such Act.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8125)
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 110-415.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 110-415.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 263.
Mr. Donnelly moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H12189-12191)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2787.
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Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H12189)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H12189)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.