---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telephone, digital pager, or other device; causing to ring or signal with intent to annoy, penalty."
description: "Telephone, digital pager, or other device; causing to ring or signal with intent to annoy, penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1034"
citation: "Virginia SB 1034 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-08"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7e8a20d-1c10-4d96-8e32-2f917b30ba98"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1034"
source_hash: "96a38cd43842029f4d58b42faebb5662a629d66a710f5a72a1165a6ad3876551"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 1034 (2023) — Telephone, digital pager, or other device; causing to ring or signal with intent to annoy, penalty.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0202** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0202)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23104489D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1034S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101703D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1034)
4. **SB1034ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1034ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101703D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1034)
- **2023-01-18** Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Committee substitute printed 23104489D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 23104489D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1034S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB1034S1)
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1034ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB1034ER)
- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 202 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7e8a20d-1c10-4d96-8e32-2f917b30ba98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).