S388 • 2026

Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.

Housing

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Stack, Brian P.
Last action: 2026-06-18
Official status: Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Housing Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.

What This Bill Does

Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
Topic: Housing Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-06-18 New Jersey Legislature
Passed by the Senate (40-0)
2026-06-18 New Jersey Legislature
Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Housing Committee
2026-06-01 New Jersey Legislature
Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
Topic:
Housing
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S388 TR

SENATE, No. 388

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

Senator ANDREW ZWICKER

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Moriarty, Timberlake, Wimberly, Turner and
McKnight

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of
three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled
residents moving to lower floors.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs
Committee with technical review.

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An Act
concerning
services available to certain
residents in multiple dwellings and supplementing P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-1 et
seq.).

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

���� 1.��� a.� For purposes of this
section, �qualifying resident� means a senior citizen or a person with a
disability which hinders or limits mobility.

���� b.��� The owner of a multiple
dwelling with three or more floors that is not held in a cooperative,
condominium, or other common interest form of ownership governed by "The
Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act," P.L.1977, c.419
(C.45:22A-21 et seq.), the "Condominium Act," P.L.1969, c.257
(C.46:8B-1 et seq.), the "Horizontal Property Act," P.L.1963, c.168
(C.46:8A-1 et seq.), or "The Cooperative Recording Act of New
Jersey," P.L.1987, c.381 (C.46:8D-1 et seq.), shall grant priority status
to a qualifying resident who already resides in the building, and is seeking to
move into a unit with the same number of bedrooms located on a lower floor
within the multiple dwelling.� A qualifying resident shall be granted the right
of first refusal over applicants seeking to move into the multiple dwelling and
over other non-qualifying residents of the multiple dwelling seeking to move
into a unit on a lower floor.� The requirements of this subsection shall not
displace any existing affordability requirements, targeting requirements, and
income restrictions in place for the multiple dwelling.

���� c.���� The owner, or an agent
thereof, shall post, in the same location and manner as a certificate of
registration pursuant to subsection a. of section 12 of P.L.1967, c.76
(C.55:13A-12), a sign that contains information regarding the priority status
granted to qualifying residents.

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