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A102 • 2026

Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.

Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Barlas, Al
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.

Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.

What This Bill Does

  • Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.
  • Topic: State and Local Government Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

Official Summary Text

Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.
Topic:
State and Local Government
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A102

ASSEMBLY, No. 102

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman AL BARLAS

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Flynn and Assemblyman Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and
task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have
quorum at least once every year.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act
concerning the inactivation of certain
committees,
councils, panels, and task forces
and
supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Notwithstanding the
provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, if a committee,
council, panel, task force, or other body, whose purposes or duties are
advisory or temporary in nature, and created by an act or joint resolution does
not meet or is not able to conduct business due to the lack of a quorum, at
least once every 365 days, that body shall be deemed inactive.� The Secretary
of State shall annually review the meeting records of every body created by an
act or joint resolution and determine what body shall be deemed inactive by the
provisions of this section.� If a body has been deemed inactive by the
provisions of this section, the appointment of all members serving on that body
shall be deemed terminated, and that body shall not be allowed to call to its
assistance and avail itself of the services of employees of any State, county,
or municipal department, board, bureau, commission, or agency.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

����� This bill provides that if a committee, council,
panel, task force, or other body whose purposes or duties are advisory or
temporary in nature, and created by an act or joint resolution does not meet,
or is not able to conduct business due to the lack of a quorum, at least once
every 365 days, that body is to be deemed inactive. The bill requires the
Secretary of State to annually review the meeting records of every such body to
determine if it is deemed inactive by the provisions of the bill.� If a body is
deemed inactive under the bill, the appointment of all members serving on that
body would be terminated, and that body would not be allowed to call to its
assistance and avail itself of the services of employees of any State, county,
or municipal department, board, bureau, commission, or agency.