JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on House Bill No. 157, report as follows:

A. We recommend that the Senate Amendment number 3 be rejected.

B. We recommend that the engrossed bill as amended be further amended as follows to resolve the matters under disagreement.

Page 1, line 40, after

§ 43.2-391.2

insert

However, upon conviction and after sentencing of any person for a first offense under this section or any local ordinance substantially similar thereto, if the court finds that the person has not before entered a program pursuant to § 18.2-271.1, the court shall order, as a condition of probation or otherwise, that the person enter and successfully complete an alcohol safety action program, and the provisions of § 18.2-271.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Respectfully submitted,

H. Morgan Griffith

Jerrauld C. Jones

R. Creigh Deeds

Conferees on the part of the House

Henry L. Marsh III

John S. Edwards

William Roscoe Reynolds

Conferees on the part of the Senate