republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/sb-10.md

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Bill	Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida	Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Sidney Holmes; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Holmes for being wrongfully incarcerated for 34 years; directing the Chief Financial Officer to draw a warrant payable directly to Mr. Holmes; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Holmes; prohibiting funds awarded under the act to Mr. Holmes from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 10	Florida SB 10 (2025)	bill	(claims bills)	enacted	2025-215	Judiciary Pizzo	3	33	5	2024-08-02	2025-07-08	openstates	ocd-bill/f2b1890c-4da4-4631-a7ae-60caedf5a58f	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/10/ByCategory	205786298a2fc567fec8e99386f26e031726da88384c57dd62fddc629cf4410f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 10 (2025) — Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida

Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Sidney Holmes; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Holmes for being wrongfully incarcerated for 34 years; directing the Chief Financial Officer to draw a warrant payable directly to Mr. Holmes; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Holmes; prohibiting funds awarded under the act to Mr. Holmes from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-215.

Version chain

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

1. S 10 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 10 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 10 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Judiciary — primary (person)
• Pizzo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-08-02 Filed filing
• 2024-11-20 Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-14 Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
• 2025-03-14 Now in Judiciary
• 2025-03-14 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2025-03-19 CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-19 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-19 CS by Judiciary read 1st time
• 2025-03-20 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
• 2025-04-07 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2025-04-10 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-11 Now in Appropriations
• 2025-04-14 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/17/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2025-04-17 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-18 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-28 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/29/25
• 2025-04-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-29 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-29 In Messages
• 2025-04-29 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-04-29 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
• 2025-04-29 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-30 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-30 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-30 CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-30 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-07-01 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-07-08 Chapter No. 2025-215

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2b1890c-4da4-4631-a7ae-60caedf5a58f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).