I 
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. 
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 
A BILL 
To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction 
and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weath-
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— 
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(1) nearly 20,000,000 Americans live in manu-
factured homes, which often provide a more acces-
sible 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 Admin-
istration 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 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- 
hazard information 24 hours a day; 
(5) the operator of a mobile home community 
should be encouraged to provide a safe place of shel-
ter for park residents or a plan for the evacuation 
of park residents to a safe place of shelter within a 
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reasonable distance of the park for use by park resi-
dents 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 man-
ufactured 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 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 fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(h) WEATHER RADIOS.— 
‘‘(1) CONSTRUCTION
AND
SAFETY
STAND-
ARD.—The Federal manufactured home construction 
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and safety standards established by the Secretary 
under this section shall require that each manufac-
tured 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 cur-
rent 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 commu-
nity, or the mobile home manufacturer to liability 
for the functionality of that weather radio or smoke 
detector.’’. 
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SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall establish the Federal manufactured home construc-
tion 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 Con-
struction 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. 
Æ 
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