S 1413 New Jersey Senate · 2026-2027 Regular Session

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

S 1413 requires New Jersey's Division of Consumer Affairs to create and maintain an online open data portal on its website. The portal must provide public access to specific non-confidential datasets, including license application volumes, processing times, active license counts by county, exam pass rates, and consumer complaint statistics. Key mechanisms include annual updates, the ability to sort data by profession/county, and year-over-year comparisons, while ensuring compliance with open records laws and privacy regulations. This bill directly affects the Division of Consumer Affairs (which must implement the portal) and the public (which gains access to transparency data about licensing and complaints). The portal will not include confidential or non-disclosable information under state or federal law.

Issues: ✓ Technology

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Feb 12, 2026

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What changed between versions

Technical Review Of Prefiled Bill → Introduced · 6 edits · Jan 13, 2026

MODERATE

This is a transition from the technical review stage to formal introduction of the bill. The changes are entirely procedural and formatting in nature: the bill's status was updated, a co-sponsor (Senator Diegnan) was removed, a pre-filed designation for the 2026 session was added, minor wording and spacing were cleaned up, and a summary statement was appended at the end. No substantive policy changes were made to the bill's content.

TECHNICAL

Bill status changed from 'As reported by the Senate Commerce Committee with technical review' to 'Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel'

Senator Diegnan was removed as a co-sponsor; only Senator Singer remains listed

A pre-filed designation for introduction in the 2026 session was added to the header

Minor wording change in the effective date clause: 'date of enactment' shortened to 'enactment'

A summary STATEMENT paragraph was appended at the end describing the bill's purpose (requiring the Division of Consumer Affairs to create and maintain an open data portal for licensing and consumer complaint data)

Various whitespace, spacing, and line-break formatting adjustments throughout the numbered subsections

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Committee

Feb 12, 2026

Committee

Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

upper

Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

upper

2 primary · 1 co-sponsor