Prohibits financial lenders, insurance companies and healthcare providers from using automated decision systems to discriminate against protected classes in providing services.
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This is a binding legislative act from the New Jersey State Legislature with mandatory language, explicit enforcement mechanisms through existing discrimination law, and legal penalties for non-compliance.
The document has good coverage of approximately 3 subdomains, with strong focus on unfair discrimination (1.1), unequal performance across groups (1.3), and governance failure (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination and fairness domains related to automated decision systems.
The document explicitly governs three sectors: Finance and Insurance (covering banks, lenders, credit institutions, and insurance companies), Health Care and Social Assistance (covering health care providers), and implicitly Professional and Technical Services (credit reporting agencies). The regulation focuses on preventing discrimination in automated decision-making within these sectors.
The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages, as it regulates the use of automated decision systems in production environments across financial services, insurance, and healthcare. It does not address earlier lifecycle stages such as planning, data collection, or model development.
The document explicitly defines and covers 'automated decision systems' broadly, including systems derived from machine learning, statistics, or artificial intelligence. It does not specifically mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds, focusing instead on the functional use of automated systems in decision-making contexts.
New Jersey State Legislature (Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey)
The document is enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as stated in the opening clause.
New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (implied through reference to P.L.1945, c.169)
The act establishes that violations constitute unlawful discrimination under existing New Jersey law (P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-12)), which is enforced by the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, though this body is not explicitly named in the document.
New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (implied through reference to P.L.1945, c.169)
Monitoring responsibilities are implied through the incorporation of this act into existing discrimination law enforcement framework, though no explicit monitoring provisions are detailed in the document itself.
Financial institutions (banks, banking organizations, credit reporting agencies, mortgage companies, lenders, credit institutions), insurance companies licensed in New Jersey, health care providers
The act explicitly targets three categories of entities that use automated decision systems: financial institutions involved in lending, insurance companies, and health care providers. These entities are regulated in their use of automated decision systems.
3 subdomains (2 Good, 1 Minimal)