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.
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