The opposition, and its stated grounds

CAI's Illinois Legislative Action Committee opposed both resolutions. Its reasons, as reported: the January 2027 reporting deadline left no room to form the body, develop recommendations and take public comment; and CAI was not named to the task force roster.

ILAC ran a call-to-action ahead of the HJR 60 House Housing Committee hearing that generated 1,350 messages, including more than 300 personalized messages from 75 Illinois CAI members.

The timing objection is substantively fair. A resolution filed April 9 that reports by January 2027 gives a task force that does not yet exist roughly eight months to be constituted, meet, take evidence and write. That is not enough, and the deadline was probably an artifact of matching the resolution to the General Assembly's own calendar rather than to the work.

The roster objection is a different kind of objection, and it is the one that decides who frames the recommendations. A task force on condominium transparency seated without the industry's trade association will produce different findings than one seated with it. Both sides understood that.

What the task force would have inherited

Illinois already has a single official recurring dataset on what goes wrong inside associations, and it is thin by design: the Ombudsperson's annual report, which for the year to August 31, 2026 recorded 378 written inquiries, roughly 20% of them raising governance issues.

The Ombudsperson has twice declined to recommend statutory change, saying the anecdotal base “remains limited.” That is precisely the gap a task force with subpoena-free but broader evidence-gathering could have filled — and it is why the study resolution and the registration and enforcement bills were complementary rather than alternative.

The building-safety half nobody is looking at

HJR 60's remit expressly included safe living conditions. That matters because Illinois has enacted no milestone or structural-inspection requirement of the kind Florida and New Jersey adopted after Surfside, and no standalone inspection bill surfaced in the 104th General Assembly at all.

The state's only structural-inspection mandate is municipal: Chicago's facade critical-examination regime for buildings over 80 feet. Outside Chicago, an aging Illinois high-rise is inspected when its board decides to inspect it.

The task force was the only vehicle in the session that would have looked at that. It died in Rules on July 1.

A note on HJR 67

CAI reports both resolutions died in committee. The action history returned for HJR 67 — filed April 9, referred April 14, assigned to Housing April 27, re-referred to Rules July 1 — is identical to HJR 60's. These may genuinely be twin resolutions filed together by the same sponsor, or the sources may have conflated them. We could not separately verify HJR 67's docket, and say so rather than treat the duplicate history as confirmation.

What to watch next

Resolutions of this kind are cheap to refile and the underlying pressure has not gone away. If any condominium-specific item reappears in the 105th General Assembly, this is the most likely one — and the fight to watch is over the roster, not the remit.