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Bill	Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services	Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 70	Florida SB 70 (2022)	bill	(claims bills)	enacted	2022-226	Appropriations Rouson	3	33	5	2021-08-02	2022-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/437f76b7-49e4-4dc0-aa7a-c7aaf30cf780	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/70/ByCategory	7ef56a1cdd2af1190306704d2aac835cc6da1055c98d9286dd3fa038635606aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 70 (2022) — Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing for the relief of Donna Catalano by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing an appropriation to compensate Donna Catalano for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Donald Gerard Burthe, an employee of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing a limitation on the payment of certain fees, costs, and other expenses, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-226.

Version chain

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

1. S 70 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 70 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 70 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Rouson — primary (person)
• Ausley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-08-02 Filed filing
• 2021-09-21 Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-19 Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
• 2022-01-19 Now in Judiciary
• 2022-01-19 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/24/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-01-24 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-25 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
• 2022-02-11 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/16/22, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2022-02-16 Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2022-02-17 Now in Appropriations
• 2022-02-17 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-02-21 CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
• 2022-02-23 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-02-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-02-23 CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2022-02-24 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
• 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-01 CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 2 -SJ 472, 473 passage
• 2022-03-01 In Messages
• 2022-03-04 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
• 2022-03-04 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
• 2022-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-07 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-08 Ordered enrolled
• 2022-05-20 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-05-20 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-06-29 Chapter No. 2022-226

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/437f76b7-49e4-4dc0-aa7a-c7aaf30cf780. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).