A 3390 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

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

This bill requires New Jersey's Division of Consumer Affairs to create and maintain a public online portal on its website. The portal must provide accessible, annual updates of non-confidential licensing data, including application counts, processing times, active license numbers by county, exam pass rates, and consumer complaint statistics. Users can sort this data by profession or license type and view year-over-year comparisons. All data shared must comply with existing open records laws and privacy protections, ensuring only publicly disclosable information is made available.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action May 4, 2026

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Reprint · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill, which requires the Division of Consumer Affairs to create an open data portal for professional licensing and consumer complaint data, received three substantive amendments from the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee: the effective date was extended from 9 months to 18 months after enactment, the scope of examination pass/fail rate reporting was narrowed to only exams directly administered by a board or committee, and the requirement to report average complaint response times was made optional. A new co-sponsor was also added.

Scope change

The bill's scope was narrowed in two ways: examination data reporting is limited to directly administered exams, and the complaint response time metric may no longer be required. The implementation timeline was extended by 9 months.

TIMELINE

The effective date was extended from the first day of the ninth month after enactment to the first day of the eighteenth month after enactment, giving the Division of Consumer Affairs an additional 9 months to implement the open data portal.

SCOPE

Section (5) now requires pass and fail rates only for examinations 'directly' administered by a professional board or committee within the division, excluding exams administered by third-party testing organizations on behalf of the board.

REQUIREMENT

The requirement to report the average number of days from receipt of a consumer complaint to the date it was responded to is now bracketed (optional), meaning the committee may have made this data point discretionary rather than mandatory.

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Committee

Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee

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2 primary · 1 co-sponsor