---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office"
description: "Relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; Providing for the relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano, by the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation of funds to pay Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano for the damages awarded in connection with the death of their daughter as a result of the negligence of the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation, attorney and lobbying fees, and costs or similar expenses, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "Florida SB 12 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-324"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "Polsky"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-08-01"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa40406a-d6cc-42b7-a839-7ddfd9cef2c8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/12/ByCategory"
source_hash: "233398400e4eef59a86027378631ca8dff02cbf9b98aa347d760cd3ea6e22edf"
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 12 (2023) — Relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office

Relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; Providing for the relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano, by the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation of funds to pay Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano for the damages awarded in connection with the death of their daughter as a result of the negligence of the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation, attorney and lobbying fees, and costs or similar expenses, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-324.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 12 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/12/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 12 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/12/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 12 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/12/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Polsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-08-01** Filed `filing`
- **2022-12-15** Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-30** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
- **2023-03-30** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/04/23, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-04** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-05** Original reference(s) removed: Community Affairs
- **2023-04-05** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2023-04-05** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-11** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2023-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/19/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-19** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/23
- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
- **2023-04-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for CS/HB 6021
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-10** Chapter No. 2023-324

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa40406a-d6cc-42b7-a839-7ddfd9cef2c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).