republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-28.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relief of Clifford Williams by the State of Florida	Relief of Clifford Williams by the State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Clifford Williams; providing an appropriation to compensate him for being wrongfully incarcerated for 43 years; directing the Chief Financial Officer to draw a warrant payable to an irrevocable trust for the benefit of Clifford Williams; providing that the act does not waive certain defenses or increase the state’s limits of liability; providing that certain benefits are vacated upon specified findings, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 28	Florida SB 28 (2020)	bill	(claims bills)	enacted	Gibson	3	31	5	2019-08-01	2020-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/9f3baba1-25ac-42ec-96ba-d70227170f21	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/28/ByCategory	5af0c6078e120abb3d1ec0a77c6e36072775d4c1150e31ff505e0430a7fa2e36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 28 (2020) — Relief of Clifford Williams by the State of Florida

Relief of Clifford Williams by the State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Clifford Williams; providing an appropriation to compensate him for being wrongfully incarcerated for 43 years; directing the Chief Financial Officer to draw a warrant payable to an irrevocable trust for the benefit of Clifford Williams; providing that the act does not waive certain defenses or increase the state’s limits of liability; providing that certain benefits are vacated upon specified findings, etc.

Version chain

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

1. S 28 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 28 e1 (engrossed) — source
3. S 28 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gibson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-08-01 Filed filing
• 2019-08-16 Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-23 Report Submitted by Special Master on Claim Bills
• 2020-01-23 Now in Judiciary
• 2020-01-23 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/28/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-28 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-29 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
• 2020-02-13 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/18/20, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2020-02-18 Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-19 Now in Appropriations
• 2020-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-02-20 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-20 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-02-20 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
• 2020-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Amendment(s) adopted (819976)
• 2020-03-03 Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-03 In Messages
• 2020-03-06 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-06 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
• 2020-03-06 Received
• 2020-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-09 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-10 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/9f3baba1-25ac-42ec-96ba-d70227170f21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).