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Union Calendar No. 263 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2787 
[Report No. 110–415] 
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 
JUNE 20, 2007 
Mr. ELLSWORTH (for himself, Ms. GRANGER, and Mr. MOORE of Kansas) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services 
OCTOBER 30, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. BACHUS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BURGESS, 
Ms. CARSON, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas, Mr. 
HILL, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Mr. VIS-
CLOSKY, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. CRENSHAW, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. LAMPSON, 
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, and Mr. CRAMER 
OCTOBER 30, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 20, 2007] 
A BILL 
To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction 
and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weath-
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er radios be installed in all manufactured homes manu-
factured or sold in the United States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 manu-
factured 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 fam-
ilies in the United States; 
(3) NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is a nation-
wide network of radio stations broadcasting contin-
uous weather information directly from a nearby Na-
tional Weather Service (NWS) office, and broadcasts 
NWS warnings, watches, forecasts, and other all-haz-
ard information 24 hours a day; 
(4) the operators of manufactured housing com-
munities should be encouraged to provide a safe place 
of shelter for community residents or a plan for the 
evacuation of community residents to a safe place of 
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shelter within a reasonable distance of the community 
for use by community residents in times of severe 
weather, including tornados and high winds, and 
local municipalities should be encouraged to require 
approval of these plans; 
(5) the operators of manufactured housing com-
munities should be encouraged to provide a written 
reminder semiannually to all owners of manufactured 
homes in the manufactured housing community to re-
place the batteries in their weather radios; and 
(6) weather radio manufacturers should include, 
in the packaging of weather radios, a written re-
minder 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: 
‘‘(i) 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 
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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 Mes-
sage 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 PROTECTIONS.— 
‘‘(A) No aspect of the function, operation, 
performance, capabilities, or utilization of the 
weather radio required under this subsection, or 
any instructions related thereto, shall be subject 
to the requirements of section 613 or 615 or any 
regulations promulgated by the Secretary pursu-
ant to the authority under such sections. 
‘‘(B) Manufacturers of manufactured homes, 
as such term is defined in section 603, shall be 
immune from common law civil liability for any 
aspect of the function, operation, performance, 
capabilities, or utilization of the weather radio 
receiver mandated by the Federal manufactured 
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home construction and safety standard promul-
gated in accordance with this subsection, includ-
ing any instructions related thereto. 
‘‘(C) Any reminder, assistance, or instruc-
tions provided by the operator of a manufactured 
housing community concerning the function of a 
weather radio contained in a manufactured 
home shall not subject the operator, an owner or 
employee of the manufactured home community, 
or the manufacturer of the manufactured home 
to liability for the functionality of that weather 
radio.’’. 
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT. 
Not later than the expiration of the 90-day period be-
ginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the con-
sensus committee established pursuant to section 604(a)(3) 
of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and 
Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304(a)(3)) shall 
develop and submit to the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development a proposed Federal manufactured home con-
struction and safety standard required under section 604(i) 
of such Act (as added by the amendment made by section 
3 of this Act). Notwithstanding section 604(a)(5)(B) of such 
Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
issue a final order promulgating the standard required by 
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such section 604(i) not later than the expiration of the 90- 
day period beginning upon receipt by the Secretary of the 
proposed standard developed and submitted by the con-
sensus committee. 
SEC. 5. STUDY. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall conduct of study regarding conditioning the applica-
bility of the requirement under the amendment made by 
section 3 of this Act (relating to supplying 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. In conducting such study and 
making determinations under to the study, the Secretary 
shall take into consideration severe weather conditions, such 
as high winds and flooding, and wind zones and other se-
vere weather data available from the National Weather 
Service. Not later than the expiration of the 18-month pe-
riod beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall complete the study and submit a report 
regarding the results of the study to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services of the House of Representatives and to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the 
Senate. 
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Union Calendar No. 263 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2787 
[Report No. 110–415] 
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. 
OCTOBER 30, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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