---
type: "Bill"
title: "Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act; various changes to Act."
description: "Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act; various changes to Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1145"
citation: "Virginia SB 1145 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf250dd1-84ed-4cb4-8c12-fd5cf407b38f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1145"
source_hash: "960ce13194341d732a53bab4040573ce59960975310d64d63f7e87d70e4a57e3"
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 1145 (2023) — Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act; various changes to Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0300** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0300)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105091D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1145S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 23106685D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1145H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103926D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1145)
5. **SB1145ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1145ER)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- 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.

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103926D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Impact statement from VCSC (SB1145)
- **2023-01-23** Impact statement from SCC (SB1145)
- **2023-01-23** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Committee substitute printed 23105091D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-23** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Impact statement from VCSC (SB1145S1)
- **2023-01-31** Impact statement from SCC (SB1145S1)
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 23105091D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1145S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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 with substitute (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Committee substitute printed 23106685D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from VCSC (SB1145H1)
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Committee substitute agreed to 23106685D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-16** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1145H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-20** Title replaced 23106685D-H1
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (SB1145H1)
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1145ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Impact statement from SCC (SB1145ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 300 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf250dd1-84ed-4cb4-8c12-fd5cf407b38f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).