---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cattle Industry Board; collection and disposition of assessment by handler."
description: "Cattle Industry Board; collection and disposition of assessment by handler."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 795"
citation: "Virginia SB 795 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-11-30"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/909857ff-7be7-4901-931b-9d22f8eeea06"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB795"
source_hash: "1b1e7d873bb03aa7e71ac5d3e715bc6743e02572a5e3c73ebb7060e9abb620fa"
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 795 (2023) — Cattle Industry Board; collection and disposition of assessment by handler.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0263** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0263)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100790D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB795)
3. **SB795ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB795ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 2-N 2-A) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-11-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100790D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-11-30** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Rereferred to Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB795)
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed House (95-Y 2-N 2-A) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 2-N 2-A) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB795ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB795ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 263 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/909857ff-7be7-4901-931b-9d22f8eeea06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).