---
type: "Bill"
title: "Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration"
description: "Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration; Deleting the definition of the term “violent felony”; expanding the period during which a petition for compensation for wrongful incarceration may be filed; providing that a wrongfully incarcerated person is not eligible for compensation for any period of incarceration during which the person was concurrently serving a sentence for a conviction of another felony for which such person was lawfully incarcerated; revising provisions concerning the offset of civil judgments in favor of claimants against awards, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 130"
citation: "Florida SB 130 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-194"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-12-20"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8d0421-3b20-4566-a8b6-f2f6a0706066"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/130/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6b045bedb164e446c6b791f6648c3b8610d50c948abf3469e6e31479445c701d"
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 130 (2025) — Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration

Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration; Deleting the definition of the term “violent felony”; expanding the period during which a petition for compensation for wrongful incarceration may be filed; providing that a wrongfully incarcerated person is not eligible for compensation for any period of incarceration during which the person was concurrently serving a sentence for a conviction of another felony for which such person was lawfully incarcerated; revising provisions concerning the offset of civil judgments in favor of claimants against awards, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-194.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 130 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/130/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 130 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/130/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-15** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/11/25, 1:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-02-11** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2025-02-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/05/25, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/20/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-20** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/25
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Immediately certified
- **2025-03-27** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-30** Chapter No. 2025-194

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a8d0421-3b20-4566-a8b6-f2f6a0706066`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).