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.
An Act concerning the Division of Consumer Affairs’ Internet website and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
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.