Bill Text: IL HB5238 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified features in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual notice during National Fire Prevention Week to be given by the operator of a mobile home community to replace batteries in weather radios and smoke detectors. Provides installers with immunity from liability for the functionality of weather radios or smoke detectors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0697 [HB5238 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5238-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified features in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual notice during National Fire Prevention Week to be given by the operator of a mobile home community to replace batteries in weather radios and smoke detectors. Provides installers with immunity from liability for the functionality of weather radios or smoke detectors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0697 [HB5238 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5238-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Structure Safety Act is amended by adding Section 18 as | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows:
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7 | (430 ILCS 115/18 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Sec. 18. Weather radio requirement. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) This Section applies to a person that installs a | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | manufactured home in a mobile home community after 2023. | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | (b) A person shall supply a weather radio inside each | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | manufactured home that the person installs. The weather radio | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | must be equipped with the following features: | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | (1) tone alarm activation; | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | (2) specific alert message encoding, or SAME, | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | technology; and | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (3) public alert standard (CEA-2009) certification. | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | (c) The supplying of a weather radio by a person that | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | installs a manufactured home as required by this Section does | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | not subject the person to liability for the functionality of | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | that weather radio. | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | (d) Each year during National Fire Prevention Week, the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | operator of a mobile home community is encouraged to provide a |
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