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This bill mandates that the Division of Consumer Affairs, part of the Department of Law and Public Safety, must create and maintain an online "open data portal" on its website, which will be updated at least annually. This portal will provide public access to non-confidential statistical information collected by the division, such as aggregated counts of license applications and active licenses, average processing times for applications, county-level data on licenses, exam pass/fail rates, and aggregated data on consumer complaints including response times. The bill specifies that the data must be sortable by professional board and license type, and allow for year-over-year comparisons. Importantly, all data made available must comply with the "open public records act" (P.L.1963, c.73, C.47:1A-1 et seq.), which governs public access to government records, as well as other state and federal privacy and security laws, ensuring that only information legally subject to public disclosure is shared.

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