The purpose of this chapter is to provide full and complete authority for the state, acting by and through the commission, to issue or enter into variable rate debt instruments. No procedure or proceedings, publications, notices, consents, limitations, approvals, orders, acts or things, other than those required by this chapter, shall be required to issue or enter into any variable rate debt instruments or to do any act or perform anything under this chapter except as otherwise may be prescribed in this chapter. The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this chapter shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law. This chapter is remedial in nature and shall be liberally construed.