Bill Text: IL HB5238 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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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 requirements 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: (Engrossed) 2024-04-24 - Assigned to Judiciary [HB5238 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5238-Engrossed.html

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HB5238 Engrossed LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b
AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile
Structure Safety Act is amended by adding Section 18 as
follows:
(430 ILCS 115/18 new)
Sec. 18. Weather radio requirement.
(a) This Section applies to a person that installs a
manufactured home in a mobile home community after 2023.
(b) A person shall supply a weather radio inside each
manufactured home that the person installs. The weather radio
must be equipped with the following features:
(1) tone alarm activation;
(2) specific alert message encoding, or SAME,
technology; and
(3) public alert standard (CEA-2009) certification.
(c) The supplying of a weather radio by a person that
installs a manufactured home as required by this Section does
not subject the person to liability for the functionality of
that weather radio.
(d) Each year during National Fire Prevention Week, the
operator of a mobile home community is encouraged to provide a

HB5238 Engrossed - 2 - LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b