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Bill	Relief/Dontrell Stephens/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office	Relief/Dontrell Stephens/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Providing for an appropriation to compensate him for personal injuries and damages sustained as the result of the negligence of a deputy of the office; providing for payment of compensation, fees, and costs; providing a limitation on the payment of attorney fees, lobbying fees, and costs; providing for the waiver and extinguishment of certain liens, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	HB 6501	Florida HB 6501 (2020)	bill	(claims bills)	enacted	Fernandez-Barquin Joseph	5	32	4	2019-09-06	2020-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/226e7f47-d531-46f0-8817-a98145d75010	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/6501/ByCategory	9b8a2a76a30eed55e85872971cfd568897d6978cd4c0932c941f6b5645b25a06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 6501 (2020) — Relief/Dontrell Stephens/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

Relief/Dontrell Stephens/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Providing for an appropriation to compensate him for personal injuries and damages sustained as the result of the negligence of a deputy of the office; providing for payment of compensation, fees, and costs; providing a limitation on the payment of attorney fees, lobbying fees, and costs; providing for the waiver and extinguishment of certain liens, etc.

Version chain

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

1. H 6501 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 6501 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 6501 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 6501 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 6501 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Judiciary Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Civil Justice Subcommittee) — 11–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fernandez-Barquin — primary (person)
• Joseph — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-09-06 Filed filing
• 2019-09-23 Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-31 On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 3:30 pm, Sumner Hall
• 2020-02-04 CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 2
• 2020-02-06 Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
• 2020-02-06 CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time
• 2020-02-07 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2020-02-24 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary Committee, 02/26/20, 8:00 am, Sumner Hall
• 2020-02-26 CS/CS by- Judiciary Committee; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-27 Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
• 2020-02-27 CS/CS by Judiciary Committee read 1st time
• 2020-02-28 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-03-03 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
• 2020-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (038235)
• 2020-03-06 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-09 CS passed as amended; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-09 In Messages
• 2020-03-09 Referred to Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Received
• 2020-03-10 Withdrawn from Judiciary; Rules withdrawal
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-10 Substituted for CS/SB 4
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 2 passage
• 2020-03-11 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-05-26 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/226e7f47-d531-46f0-8817-a98145d75010. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).