15. This 1996 amendatory and supplementary act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the Commissioners of Banking and Insurance, or any department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred to the reconstituted Department of Banking and Insurance, or to any agency designated, continued, or constituted hereunder, and pending on the effective date of this act.

L.1996,c.45,s.15.