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portunity to demonstrate a legendary political technique called “the shad treatment,” which means gutting the bill by rendering it useless with amendments.
Sen. Wiley F. Mitchell Jr. (RAlexandria) did the honors by proposing an amendment that exploited the differences in construction standards between double-wide manufactured houses and modular houses that are allowed in many residential zoning districts around the state.
His amendment would require the houses to conform to the statewide building code, which applies now to modular houses but not to pre-manufactured units like double-wides. Federal building standards apply to them.
The amendment, which passed 21-17, would have forced manufacturers to build the houses to the state BOCA code. The industry claims that would raise the cost of housing and make it less competitive. The bill’s opponents say the manufacturers oppose it because it would force them to use a different type of financing for their customers.
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