ASSEMBLY HOUSING COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 4103

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  JUNE 8, 2026

      The Assembly Housing Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 4103.

      As reported, this bill requires a construction permit for certain work involving asbestos on the interior or exterior of a single-family home, duplex, or townhouse. 

      Although work that involves the handling of asbestos is substantially regulated pursuant to the "Asbestos Control and Licensing Act," P.L.1984, c.173 (C.34:5A-32 et seq.), and other statutes and regulations, current law often permits this work to be conducted without obtaining a construction permit for the purpose of the asbestos-related work.

      This bill requires an employee, or any other person, performing functions of application, enclosure, repair, removal, or encapsulation of asbestos-containing material on the interior or exterior of a single-family home, duplex, or townhouse, to first apply to the construction code enforcing agency to obtain a construction permit.  This permit is to be required in addition to any other permitting requirements from other enforcement entities. 

      Unless separately required by a construction code enforcing agency, or by the rules and regulations of the Commissioner of Community Affairs, the requirements established by the bill are not to apply if the area of asbestos-containing material to be involved in an application, enclosure, repair, removal, or encapsulation project consists of less than 1,000 square feet of surface area.