Beech Tree News Network

FRANKFORT --- Last week, Speaker-Elect Jeff Hoover released the names of House committee chairs for the upcoming 2017 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. Included on the list is 17th District State Representative Jim DeCesare, R-Bowling Green, who will serve as the Chairman of the House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee.

The Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee is charged with dealing with legislation pertaining to commerce, industry, and economic and industrial development not specifically assigned to another committee; economic development planning, international trade and investment; investment companies and industrial loan corporations as they relate to economic and industrial development; recruitment of business and industry; small business matters relative to economic and industrial development; financing of business and industrial development; business regulatory matters, including the Uniform Commercial Code, relative to economic and industrial development; worker training; technology development and application; chambers of commerce; convention centers and publicly owned exhibition and parking facilities; arts and arts exhibition facilities; state, interstate, and national parks and historic sites; travel promotion and advertising. The committee will also be charged with growing and improving Kentucky’s workforce.

The 2017 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly will convene on January 3rd. For the first time since 1921, the House of Representatives will be led by a Republican majority.

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Note:  State Rep. DeCesare represents Butler County in the Kentucky General Assembly.