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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: "SB 897"
citation: "Virginia SB 897 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc3f1fe1-23bf-41d7-97bf-b5f56e0574d9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB897"
source_hash: "8b91d1fd32871f69b5529f31ee869db09365b13ff51acd333d51fd02994787ec"
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 897 (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. **CHAP0134** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0134)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105061D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB897S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102970D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB897)
4. **SB897ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB897ER)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 10-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (19-Y 1-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Stuart — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102970D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-05** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB897)
- **2023-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Committee substitute printed 23105061D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-24** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **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 23105061D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB897S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB897S1)
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed House (88-Y 10-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** VOTE: Passage (88-Y 10-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB897ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB897ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 134 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc3f1fe1-23bf-41d7-97bf-b5f56e0574d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).