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This bill requires the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to create and maintain an annual open data portal on their website, which will provide public access to non-confidential statistical datasets. The portal must include specific types of information related to professional and occupational licensing, such as aggregate counts of license applications, processing times, active license numbers, license populations by county, examination pass/fail rates, and consumer complaint statistics. The portal must allow users to sort datasets by professional board and license type, and provide year-by-year comparisons. All datasets must comply with the Open Public Records Act and other state and federal privacy laws, ensuring that no confidential or non-disclosable information is revealed. The bill will take effect on the first day of the ninth month following its enactment, with the director of the Division of Consumer Affairs able to take preparatory administrative actions in advance. The goal of this bill is to increase transparency and provide easy public access to licensing and consumer complaint information.

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