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Union Calendar No. 124 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1751 

[Report No. 112–191] 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 5, 2011 

Mr. BACHUS (for himself, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. AL

GREEN of Texas, and Mr. CLAY) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

AUGUST 1, 2011 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 

and ordered to be printed 


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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. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CJ’s Home Protection 

5 Act of 2011’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds that— 

8 (1) nearly 20,000,000 Americans live in manu9 factured homes, which often provide a more acces10 sible and affordable way for many families to buy 

11 their own homes; 

12 (2) manufactured housing plays a vital role in 

13 providing housing for low- and moderate-income 

14 families in the United States; 

15 (3) NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is a nation16 wide network of radio stations broadcasting contin17 uous weather information directly from a nearby Na18 tional Weather Service (NWS) office, and broadcasts 

19 NWS warnings, watches, forecasts, and other all20 hazard information 24 hours a day; 

21 (4) the operators of manufactured housing com22 munities should be encouraged to provide a safe 

23 place of shelter for community residents or a plan 

24 for the evacuation of community residents to a safe 

25 place of shelter within a reasonable distance of the 


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1 community for use by community residents in times 

2 of severe weather, including tornados and high 

3 winds, and local municipalities should be encouraged 

4 to require approval of these plans; and 

5 (5) weather radio manufacturers should include, 

6 in the packaging of weather radios, a written re7 minder to replace the batteries twice each year and 

8 written instructions on how to do so. 

9 SEC. 3. FEDERAL MANUFACTURED HOME CONSTRUCTION 

10 AND SAFETY STANDARD. 

11 Section 604 of the National Manufactured Housing 

12 Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 

13 U.S.C. 5403) is amended by adding at the end the fol14 lowing new subsection: 

15 ‘‘(i) WEATHER RADIOS.— 

16 ‘‘(1) CONSTRUCTION AND SAFETY STAND17 ARD.—The Federal manufactured home construction 

18 and safety standards established by the Secretary 

19 under this section shall require that each manufac20 tured home delivered for sale shall be supplied with 

21 a weather radio inside the manufactured home 

22 that— 

23 ‘‘(A) is capable of broadcasting emergency 

24 information relating to local weather conditions; 

25 ‘‘(B) is equipped with a tone alarm; 


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1 ‘‘(C) is equipped with Specific Alert Mes2 sage Encoding, or SAME technology; and 

3 ‘‘(D) complies with Consumer Electronics 

4 Association (CEA) Standard 2009–A (or cur5 rent revision thereof) Performance Specification 

6 for Public Alert Receivers. 

7 ‘‘(2) LIABILITY PROTECTIONS.—No aspect of 

8 the function, operation, performance, capabilities, or 

9 utilization of the weather radio required under this 

10 subsection, or any instructions related thereto, shall 

11 be subject to the requirements of sections 613 or 

12 615 or any regulations promulgated by the Secretary 

13 pursuant to the authority under such sections.’’. 

14 SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT. 

15 Not later than the expiration of the 90-day period 

16 beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

17 consensus committee established pursuant to section 

18 604(a)(3) of the National Manufactured Housing Con19 struction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 

20 5304(a)(3)) shall develop and submit to the Secretary of 

21 Housing and Urban Development a proposed Federal 

22 manufactured home construction and safety standard re23 quired under section 604(i) of such Act (as added by the 

24 amendment made by section 3 of this Act). Notwith25 standing section 604(a)(5)(B) of such Act, the Secretary 


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1 of Housing and Urban Development shall issue a final 

2 order promulgating the standard required by such section 

3 604(i) not later than the expiration of the 90-day period 

4 beginning upon receipt by the Secretary of the proposed 

5 standard developed and submitted by the consensus com6 mittee. 

7 SEC. 5. STUDY. 

8 The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 

9 shall conduct a study regarding conditioning the applica10 bility of the requirement under the amendment made by 

11 section 3 of this Act (relating to supplying weather radios 

12 in manufactured homes) on the geographic location at 

13 which a manufactured home is placed, but only to the ex14 tent that such requirement applies to new manufactured 

15 homes and new site-built homes. In conducting such study 

16 and making determinations under the study, the Secretary 

17 shall take into consideration severe weather conditions, 

18 such as high winds and flooding, and wind zones and other 

19 severe weather data available from the National Weather 

20 Service. Not later than the expiration of the 18-month pe21 riod beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 

22 the Secretary shall complete the study and submit a report 

23 regarding the results of the study to the Committee on 

24 Financial Services of the House of Representatives and 


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1 to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af2 fairs of the Senate. 


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Union Calendar No. 124 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1751 

[Report No. 112–191] 

A BILL 

To amend the National Manufactured Housing 

United States. manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the to require that weather radios be installed in all Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 

AUGUST 1, 2011 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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