JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on House Bill No. 2084, 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, notwithstanding the provisions of § 32.1-126.3, any hospital located in a city having a population of more than 16,100 but less than 18,000, or in a county having a population of more than 17,350 but less than 17,500, may submit a plan of compliance by a date certain which shall be no later than July 1, 2003.