---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District"
description: "Relief of Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; Providing for the relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; providing an appropriation to compensate Latricia Mitchell and Jerald Mitchell, individually and as legal guardians of Jamiyah Mitchell, for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of the South Broward Hospital District; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation, attorney fees, lobby fees, and certain costs and expenses, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "Florida SB 16 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-325"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-08-01"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7dfbe9e-e5d8-4b51-8ad8-692528e71741"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/16/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7af502dbca6636cbf76eb055d71835677f80471a1cdfaf704550c55744357c07"
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 16 (2023) — Relief of Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District

Relief of Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; Providing for the relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; providing an appropriation to compensate Latricia Mitchell and Jerald Mitchell, individually and as legal guardians of Jamiyah Mitchell, for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of the South Broward Hospital District; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation, attorney fees, lobby fees, and certain costs and expenses, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-325.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 16 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/16/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 16 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/16/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 16 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/16/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 16 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/16/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gruters — primary (person)
- Judiciary — 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; Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-24** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
- **2023-03-24** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/29/23, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-29** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-31** Now in Health Policy
- **2023-03-31** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/04/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-31** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2023-04-04** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/19/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-19** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `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** Amendment(s) adopted (737080)
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 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 (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for CS/HB 6015
- **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. 2023-325

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7dfbe9e-e5d8-4b51-8ad8-692528e71741`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).