JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on Senate Bill No. 688, report as follows:

We recommend that the House Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute be accepted with the following amendment to resolve the matter under disagreement.

Page 2, House Substitute, after line 24

insert

2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective

on October 1, 2000.

Respectfully submitted,

Senator Edward L. Schrock

Senator Kenneth W. Stolle

Senator J. Randy Forbes

Conferees on the part of the Senate

Delegate M. Kirkland Cox

Delegate H. Morgan Griffith

Delegate Leo C. Wardrup, Jr.

Conferees on the part of the House