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A4214
ASSEMBLY, No. 4214
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
���� stablishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support
Reform.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� As introduced.
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An Act
creating the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
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Be It Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� This act shall be known
and may be cited as the "New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform
Act."
���� 2.��� New Jersey Task Force on
Child Support Reform, established; purpose.
���� There is established the
"New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform."� The purpose of the
task force is to study current law, policies and procedures of New Jersey�s
child support
program and related statutes, to identify problems, and to
make recommendations for legislation and strategies to create a more effective
and efficient program in the State.
���� 3.��� Task force membership.
The task force shall consist of 16 members as follows:� the Commissioner of
Human Services, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Commissioner of Labor and
Workforce Development, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, the Public Defender, or their designees, as ex officio members; two
members of the Senate and two members of the General Assembly, no more than one
of whom in each case shall be of the same political party; and six public
members to be appointed by the Governor.
���� The public members shall be
multi-disciplinary child support professionals and interested laypersons.
���� The task force shall be
co-chaired; one co-chair shall be the Commissioner of Human Services and the
other shall be appointed by the Governor from among the public members and
shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
���� 4.��� Vacancies;
compensation.� 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.
���� 5.��� Providing staff.� The
Department of Human Services shall provide professional and clerical staff to
the task force as necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.
���� 6.��� Task force's use of
services and consultants.�
���� a.���� The task force shall be
entitled to call upon the services of any State, county or municipal
department, board, commission or agency, as may be available to it for these
purposes, and to incur such traveling and other miscellaneous expenses as it
may deem necessary for the proper execution of its duties and as may be within
the limit of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for these
purposes.
���� b.��� The task force shall
consult with such organizations and associations as Advocates for Children of
New Jersey, the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Social
Workers, Inc., the New Jersey State Nurses Association, the New Jersey
Education Association, Foster and Adoptive Family Services, and the Graduate
School of Social Work of Rutgers, The State University.
���� 7.��� Meetings; hearings.� The
task force may meet and hold hearings at such places as it shall designate
during the sessions or recesses of the Legislature.
���� 8.��� Funds, solicitation,
use.� The task force may solicit, receive, disburse and monitor grants and
other funds made available from any governmental, public, private,
not-for-profit or for-profit agency, including funds made available under any
federal or State law, regulation or program.
���� 9.��� Report. The task force
shall present a report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and,
pursuant to section 2 of
P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the
Legislature no later than 18 months after the organization of the task force.�
The task force shall dissolve three months after presenting the report.
���� 10.� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill creates a 16-member
task force to review current law, practices and procedures of New Jersey�s child
support program and related statutes.�
���� The task force would consist
of the Commissioner of Human Services, the Commissioner of Corrections, the
Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, the Attorney General, the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Public Defender, or their
designees, as ex officio members; two members of the Senate and two members of
the General Assembly, no more than one of whom in each case shall be of the
same political party; and six public members to be appointed by the Governor.
���� The public members would be
multi-disciplinary child support professionals and interested laypersons.
���� The bill provides that the
task force would consult with such organizations and associations as Advocates
for Children of New Jersey, the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association
of Social Workers, Inc., the New Jersey State Nurses Association, the New
Jersey Education Association, Foster and Adoptive Family Services, and the
Graduate School of Social Work of Rutgers, The State University.
���� This bill directs the task
force to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 18 months after the
organization of the task force with recommendations for legislation and
strategies to create a more effective and efficient program.