Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to create open data portal and provide certain datasets online.

S1413 TR

SENATE, No. 1413

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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Sponsored by:

Senator JOSEPH A. LAGANA

District 38 (Bergen)

Senator RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Singer and Diegnan

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to create open
data portal and provide certain datasets online.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Senate Commerce Committee with
technical review.

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An Act

concerning the Division of Consumer Affairs�
Internet website and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� a.� The Division of
Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall create,
maintain, and update, at least annually, an open data portal on the division�s
Internet website.� The open data portal shall provide public access to
non-confidential statistical datasets collected by the division, including, but
not limited to:

���� (1) an aggregate count of
applications for licensure, registration, or certification submitted to the
division or a professional or occupational board or committee within the
division, including applications for renewal;

���� (2)�� average processing times
for applications for licensure, registration, or certification, including
processing times for incomplete applications and applications for renewal;

���� (3)�� an aggregate count of
active licenses, registrations, and certifications, including newly-issued and
renewed licenses, registrations, and certifications;

���� (4)�� license, registration,
and certification population by county, including newly-issued and renewed
licenses, registrations, and certifications;

���� (5)�� passage and failure
rates of examinations administered by a professional board or committee within
the division; and

���� (6)�� an aggregate count of
consumer complaints filed with the division or a professional or occupational
board or committee within the division, including the average number of days
from receipt of a complaint to the date the complaint was responded to.

���� b.��� The division shall
ensure that public access to the open data portal includes:

���� (1)�� the ability to sort each
dataset by professional or occupational board or committee within the division
and by license, registration, or certification type, as applicable; and

���� (2)�� a year-by-year
comparison of each dataset.

���� c.���� All datasets made
available by the division on the open data portal shall be consistent with
applicable law, including P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), commonly known as
the open public records act, and other State and federal laws related to
information security and privacy.� The datasets made available by the division
shall not include data that is not subject to public disclosure under such
laws.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the ninth month next following the date of enactment,
except that the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs may take any
anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the
implementation of this act.