13-29-102 - Legislative findings.
13-29-102. Legislative findings.
The general assembly finds the following:
(1) Minority business councils have been created to serve, support and promote minority business interests and minority-owned business entities in Tennessee urban communities;
(2) Such councils have enhanced the ability of minority business to procure employment opportunities in each council's respective community; and
(3) At present, each council has independent and often duplicative certification procedures and no reciprocity provisions exist between the various councils.
[Acts 1997, ch. 404, § 2.]