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H.R. 320 111th Congress House

CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009

Official title: To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in all manufactured homes … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: January 8, 2009 See on congress.gov
Housing and Community Development Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAtmospheric science and weatherBuilding constructionDepartment of Housing and Urban Development
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Emergency communications systemsGovernment studies and investigationsHousing industry and standardsNatural disasters
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 Everywhere this bill has been 9 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 3, 2009
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Dec 2, 2009
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Dec 2, 2009
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13399-13400)
Dec 2, 2009
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13399-13400)
Dec 2, 2009
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 320.
Dec 2, 2009
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13399-13401)
Dec 2, 2009
Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Jan 8, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Jan 8, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action December 3, 2009

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 320: CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-320/
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