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Subcommittee moves small cleanup bill transferring State Fair authority to Department of Agriculture
Summary
An administration bill that removes an outdated code reference to the Tennessee State Fair and transfers related authority to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture was presented as an audit‑driven technical cleanup and advanced to the full committee 9–0.
An unnamed presenter told the committee HB 16-31 responds to an audit finding by removing a statutory reference to the Tennessee Agriculture Fair and Livestock Show and transferring the authority in question to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. The presenter described the measure as largely clean‑up language with a few technical edits and asked the committee to advance it for additional consideration.
The committee asked no substantive policy questions and voted to move HB 16-31 to the full committee with a recorded vote of 9 ayes and 0 nays. Sponsors framed the bill as an administrative housekeeping change driven by an audit recommendation.
