SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 5469

BYSenators Talmadge, Nelson and Halsan; by request of Office of the Code Reviser and Department of Trade and Economic Development

Correcting obsolete statutory references relating to the department of trade and economic development.

Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor

Senate Hearing Date(s):February 9, 1987

Majority Report:  Do pass.

      Signed by Senators Warnke, Chairman; Smitherman, Vice Chairman; Anderson, Lee, Sellar, West, Williams.

Senate Staff:Patrick Woods (786-7430)

                  February 25, 1987

AS PASSED SENATE, FEBRUARY 25, 1987

BACKGROUND:

Currently various sections of the Revised Code make inaccurate references to the Department of Trade and Economic Development, the state trade fair fund, and the Small Business Export Finance Assistance Center.  In addition, the Code contains several temporary chapters and sections which make reference to Expo 74, Energy Fair 1983, and the Department of Trade and Economic Development.

SUMMARY:

Several sections of the Code are amended to reference the correct titles of the Department of Trade and Economic Development, the state trade fair fund and the Small Business Export Finance Assistance Center.

A number of temporary chapters and sections pertaining to Expo 74, Energy Fair 1983, and the Department of Trade and Economic Development, are decodified.

Fiscal Note:      none requested

Senate Committee - Testified: Terry Wilson, Statute Law Committee; Mary Bergstrom, Department of Trade and Economic Development