CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-320
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Atmospheric science and weather
Building construction
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Emergency communications systems
Government studies and investigations
Housing industry and standards
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to issue a final order establishing federal manufactured home construction and safety standards within 90 days of receiving specified proposed standards.
 
Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 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).
 
Shields from liability the operator, owner, or employee of a mobile home community, or the mobile home manufacturer, with respect to any reminder, assistance, or instructions the community operator provides concerning the functionality of a manufactured home's weather radio or smoke detector.

action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009 - 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 (HUD) 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. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13399-13400)
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13399-13400)
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 320.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13399-13401)
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House