Establishes "Common Interest Community Task Force."

A4210

ASSEMBLY, No. 4210

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes �Common Interest Community Task Force.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

establishing a task force to study the laws
governing common interest communities.

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

���� 1.��� There is established the
�Common Interest Community Task Force.�� The purpose of the task force is to
study the laws governing common interest communities within subject areas
including but not limited to their functions, responsibilities, assessment collection
practices, and general oversight regarding election practice, financial
decisions and contractual relationships with community association managers,
and make recommendations for legislation to create more effective and efficient
policies regarding common interest communities.�

���� 2.��� The task force shall
consist of 13 members as follows:

���� a.���� two members of the
Senate, one of whom shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, and one
of whom shall be appointed by the Senate Minority Leader;

���� b.��� two members of the
General Assembly, one of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the General
Assembly, and one of whom shall be appointed by the Assembly Minority Leader;

���� c.���� the Commissioner of
Community Affairs, or a designee of the commissioner, who shall serve ex
officio;

���� d.��� one member appointed by
the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; and

���� e.���� seven public members,
who shall be appointed by the Governor, as follows: a representative of
community association managers; a representative of builders of planned real
estate developments; a representative of condominium associations; a
representative of cooperative associations; a representative of homeowners�
associations other than condominiums or cooperatives; a member with general
knowledge of common interest communities and their functions, but who is not a
member of a common interest community�s governing board; and a member with
general knowledge of common interest communities and their functions, who is
also a member of a common interest community�s governing board.�

���� 3.��� Vacancies in the
membership of the task force shall be filled in the same manner provided for
the original appointments.� The members of the task force shall serve without
compensation but may be reimbursed for traveling and other miscellaneous
expenses necessary to perform their duties, within the limits of funds made
available to the task force for its purposes.

���� 4.��� The Commissioner of
Community Affairs shall provide professional and clerical staff to the task
force as necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.

���� 5.��� The task force may meet
and hold hearings at such places as it shall designate during the sessions or
recesses of the Legislature.

���� 6.��� The task force shall
complete its first meeting, and appoint a chairperson, within 60 days of the
effective date of this act.� The task force shall present a report of its
findings and recommendations to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant
to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on or before the first day of
the sixteenth month next following the organization of the task force.� The
task force shall dissolve following the presentation of the report.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill creates a 13-member
task force, to be known as the �Common Interest Community Task Force.�� The
purpose of the task force is to study the laws governing common interest
communities regarding their functions, responsibilities, assessment collection
practices, election practice, financial decisions and contractual relationships
with community association managers.� As their study concludes, the task force
would make recommendations for legislation to create more effective and
efficient policies regarding common interest communities.�

����
In
1998, the Assembly Task Force to Study Homeowners� Associations released a
report recommending various statutory changes to enhance homeowner protection,
but the document�s recommendations are generally unfulfilled.� This bill would
establish a similar task force to revisit many of the same issues surrounding
common interest communities, a term that encompasses condominiums,
cooperatives, and homeowners� associations.�

���� The task force would consist
of two members each of the Senate and General Assembly, of whom one would be
appointed by the Senate President, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of
the General Assembly and the Assembly Minority Leader respectively.� The
Commissioner of Community Affairs, or their designee, would serve ex officio,
and the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court also would appoint one
member.� Finally, seven public members would be appointed by the Governor, as
follows: a representative of community association managers; a representative
of builders of planned real estate developments; a representative of
condominium associations; a representative of cooperative associations; a
representative of homeowners� associations other than condominiums or
cooperatives; a member with general knowledge of common interest communities
and their functions, but who is not a member of a common interest community�s
governing board; and a member with general knowledge of common interest
communities and their functions, who is also a member of a common interest
community�s governing board.�

���� The bill provides that
vacancies in task force membership would be filled in the same manner as the
original appointments.� The members of the task force would serve without
compensation, but may be reimbursed for traveling and other miscellaneous
expenses.� The bill directs the Commissioner of Community Affairs to provide
professional and clerical staff to the task force as necessary.

���� The bill directs the task
force to complete its first meeting, and appoint a chairperson, within 60 days
of enactment, and present a report of its findings and recommendations to the
Governor and Legislature by the first day of the sixteenth month next following
its organization.� The task force would dissolve following the presentation of
the report.