House - Financial Services | Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Senate - 12/03/2009 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (All Actions)
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This bill has the status Passed House
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Passed House
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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.
Actions Overview (2)
Date
Actions Overview
12/02/2009
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13399-13400)
01/08/2009
Introduced in House
12/02/2009 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13399-13400)
01/08/2009 Introduced in House
All Actions (8)
Date
Chamber
All Actions
12/03/2009
Senate
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
12/02/2009-11:43am
House
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
12/02/2009-11:43am
House
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13399-13400)
12/02/2009-11:30am
House
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 320.
12/02/2009-11:30am
House
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13399-13401)
12/02/2009-11:30am
House
Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
01/08/2009
House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
01/08/2009
House
Introduced in House
12/03/2009 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
12/02/2009 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
12/02/2009 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13399-13400)
12/02/2009 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 320.
12/02/2009 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13399-13401)
12/02/2009 Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
01/08/2009 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Committees, subcommittees and links to reports associated with this bill are listed here, as well as the nature and date of committee activity and Congressional report number.
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Activity
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House Financial Services
01/08/2009
Referred to
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
12/03/2009
Referred to
Related Bills (0)
No related bill information was received for H.R.320.
Shown Here: Passed House without amendment (12/02/2009)
(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.
Shown Here: Passed House without amendment (12/02/2009)
(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.
Shown Here: Introduced in House (01/08/2009)
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.
