---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida"
description: "Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Leonard Cure; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Cure for being wrongfully incarcerated for 16 years; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Cure; prohibiting funds awarded under this act to Mr. Cure from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Florida SB 8 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-319"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-08-01"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17a3c344-e834-4d6c-b5a6-bcd2e8d04e27"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/ByCategory"
source_hash: "927a4c4ffac9a0234e5d87c36ddd1f22fe99e238fc6429f7e685178410233f22"
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 8 (2023) — Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida

Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Leonard Cure; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Cure for being wrongfully incarcerated for 16 years; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Cure; prohibiting funds awarded under this act to Mr. Cure from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-319.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 8 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 8 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (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; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `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** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/12/23, 11:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-04-12** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/20/23, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-04-20** Favorable by- Appropriations; 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** Passed; 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for HB 6001
- **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** Passed; YEAS 104, 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. 2023-319

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17a3c344-e834-4d6c-b5a6-bcd2e8d04e27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).