103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 115/18 new 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. LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 115/18 new 430 ILCS 115/18 new 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. LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 115/18 new 430 ILCS 115/18 new 430 ILCS 115/18 new 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. LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b A BILL FOR HB5238LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b 1 AN ACT concerning safety. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile 5 Structure Safety Act is amended by adding Section 18 as 6 follows: 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 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 115/18 new 430 ILCS 115/18 new 430 ILCS 115/18 new 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. LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b A BILL FOR 430 ILCS 115/18 new LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238- 2 -LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 - 2 - LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 - 2 - LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b HB5238 - 2 - LRB103 39036 BDA 69173 b