---
type: "Bill"
title: "Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program; created."
description: "Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program; created."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1664"
citation: "Virginia HB 1664 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hodges"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10156823-66db-48dc-bc17-560ad9d9abed"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1664"
source_hash: "9fbf9647a7fb9d7cd681d11b08c7678b8e985558776b2fc01cf6419e5b5f41e2"
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 HB 1664 (2023) — Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program; created.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0133** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0133)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105060D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1664H1)
3. **HB1664ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1664ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101986D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1664)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (92-Y 8-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101986D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-16** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-18** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1664)
- **2023-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Committee substitute printed 23105060D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 23105060D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1664H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Passage (92-Y 8-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1664H1)
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1664ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1664ER)
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 133 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10156823-66db-48dc-bc17-560ad9d9abed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).