[Acts 1984 (1st E.S.), ch. 7, § 6; 1984, ch. 829, §§ 3, 4, 45; 1985, ch. 465, §§ 4-6; 1986, ch. 933, §§ 2, 8; 1994, ch. 754, § 1; 1997, ch. 424, § 3.]