Joint Conference Committee Report

We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on House Bill No. 2607, report as follows:

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

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2. That beginning July 1, 2009, the Town of Clifton shall receive monthly distributions from the Communications Sales and Use Tax Trust Fund equal to the distributions that it would have received if the Auditor of Public Accounts had certified that it had collected $6,315 of telecommunications and television cable funds in Fiscal Year 2006 from local tax rates adopted on or before January 1, 2006, pursuant to the eighth enactment clause of Chapter 780 of the Acts of Assembly of 2006.

Respectfully submitted,

Delegate Timothy D. Hugo

Delegate Benjamin L. Cline

Delegate Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.

Conferees on the part of the House

Senator Mary Margaret Whipple

Senator Janet D. Howell

Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr.

Conferees on the part of the Senate