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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: "HB 1590"
citation: "Virginia HB 1590 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sullivan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/138c646c-2a64-432c-84c8-939cca456e46"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1590"
source_hash: "35db6cf43299ff91b48930bd0d1af5d00e4d2909a02ece72278ebedcca4d4047"
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 1590 (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. **CHAP0201** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0201)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23104900D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1590H1)
3. **HB1590ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1590ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100630D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1590)
## Votes
- Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Sullivan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100630D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1590)
- **2023-01-17** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Committee substitute printed 23104900D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 23104900D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-26** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1590H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (HB1590H1)
- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-30** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1590ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1590ER)
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **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`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/138c646c-2a64-432c-84c8-939cca456e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).