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type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board"
description: "Relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board; Providing for the relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board; providing an appropriation to compensate her for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the Pinellas County School Board; providing legislative intent regarding the waiver of certain liens; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Florida SB 4 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-321"
primary_sponsors: ["Rouson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-08-01"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ae9d7cd-15f7-479b-93e0-e198356e27a7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/4/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7d4bc3850222398ba1634e85e27df13b4c3a595a0ea3601ffacba611eba3ad3b"
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 4 (2023) — Relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board
Relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board; Providing for the relief of Maria Garcia by the Pinellas County School Board; providing an appropriation to compensate her for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the Pinellas County School Board; providing legislative intent regarding the waiver of certain liens; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-321.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 4 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/4/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 4 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/4/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **111** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **171** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **391** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **100** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1050** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rouson — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-08-01** Filed `filing`
- **2022-12-15** Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Education Pre-K -12; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-16** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
- **2023-03-16** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-16** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/21/23, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-21** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Now in Education Pre-K -12
- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 04/04/23, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-04** Favorable by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 11 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/19/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-19** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/23
- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
- **2023-04-26** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for HB 6017
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** Passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-10** Chapter No. 2023-321
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ae9d7cd-15f7-479b-93e0-e198356e27a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).