3.0.0 2724 2017-12-14T23:58:48Z 2017-12-14T23:58:48Z Senate S S 2008-03-06 110 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-03-06T17:10:18Z CJ's Home Protection Act of 2007 110 2787 HR 2007-11-01 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Related bill CRS 2008-03-06 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. IntroReferral 2008-03-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001233 Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] EVAN BAYH D IN N L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2008-03-06 True L000504 Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] RICHARD LUGAR R IN GREEN 2008-03-06 True Housing and Community Development Administrative procedure Building construction Commerce Congressional reporting requirements Department of Housing and Urban Development Emergency Management Emergency communication systems Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Hurricanes Law Liability (Law) Mobile homes Prefabricated buildings Product safety Public Lands and Natural Resources Radio Science, Technology, Communications Standards Tornadoes Weather forecasting Housing and Community Development 00 2008-03-06 Introduced in Senate 2008-04-18T14:47:21Z CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008 - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to revise federal standards for manufactured homes (other than one affixed to a permanent foundation) to require each such home to be installed 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 common law civil liability: (1) manufacturers, installers, or retailers of manufactured homes for any aspect of the installation, furnishing, function, operation, performance, capabilities, or utilization of such a weather radio; and (2) the operator, owner, or employee of a manufactured home community, or the home manufacturer, with respect to the functionality of such a radio owing to any reminder, assistance, or instructions the community operator provides.

Exempts modular homes from such installation standards.

Requires the consensus committee established under such Act to develop and submit to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development a proposed standard for installed weather radios.

Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on conditioning the applicability of the weather radio installation requirement on the geographic location at which a manufactured home is placed.

]]> CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008 Display Title CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in Senate 2008-03-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2724is/xml/BILLS-110s2724is.xml 2008-03-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.