“A bill to update the definition of manufactured home, and for other purposes.”
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This section revises the definition of "manufactured home" under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to include structures built with or without a permanent chassis (from on a permanent chassis). (As background, the Act establishes federal construction and safety standards for manufactured homes—prefabricated dwellings built to HUD standards and preempting most state regulation—to ensure quality, durability, and safety; this change expands the definition to encompass certain chassis-less modular homes.) The section also establishes requirements for states to certify, initially within one year of enactment (or two years for biennially meeting legislatures) and annually thereafter, that they treat manufactured homes without a permanent chassis in parity with those built on a permanent chassis regarding financing, title, insurance, manufacture, sale, taxes, transportation, installation, and other areas determined by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). If states fail to certify timely, they (or HUD, where applicable) must prohibit the manufacture, installation, or sale of covered manufactured homes (i.e., those without a chassis meeting the federal definition and built after enactment); HUD must publish a list of compliant states and provide model guidance to assist states. Additionally, this section directs the HUD Secretary to coordinate with other federal agencies to apply the revised definition consistently across federal laws and clarifies that it does not limit the Act's federal preemption of state standards.