---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
description: "Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Florida SB 70 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-226"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Rouson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-08-02"
last_action: "2022-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/437f76b7-49e4-4dc0-aa7a-c7aaf30cf780"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/70/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7ef56a1cdd2af1190306704d2aac835cc6da1055c98d9286dd3fa038635606aa"
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-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 70 (2022) — Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-226.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 70 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/70/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 70 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/70/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 70 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/70/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Rouson — primary (person)
- Ausley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-08-02** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-21** Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
- **2022-01-19** Now in Judiciary
- **2022-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/24/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-24** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/16/22, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-21** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-23** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 2 -SJ 472, 473 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-20** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-29** Chapter No. 2022-226

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/437f76b7-49e4-4dc0-aa7a-c7aaf30cf780`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).