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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida"
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description: "Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Leonard Cure; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Cure for being wrongfully incarcerated for 16 years; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Cure; prohibiting funds awarded under this act to Mr. Cure from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "SB 8"
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citation: "Florida SB 8 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2023-319"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2022-08-01"
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last_action: "2023-07-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17a3c344-e834-4d6c-b5a6-bcd2e8d04e27"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "927a4c4ffac9a0234e5d87c36ddd1f22fe99e238fc6429f7e685178410233f22"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 8 (2023) — Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida
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Relief of Leonard Cure/State of Florida; Providing for the relief of Leonard Cure; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Cure for being wrongfully incarcerated for 16 years; providing for the waiver of certain tuition and fees for Mr. Cure; prohibiting funds awarded under this act to Mr. Cure from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-319.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 8 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 8 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/8/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **18–1** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Jones — primary (person)
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- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-08-01** Filed `filing`
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- **2022-12-15** Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2023-03-30** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
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- **2023-03-30** Now in Judiciary
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- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/04/23, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2023-04-04** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-04** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
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- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/12/23, 11:30 am, 37 Senate Building
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- **2023-04-12** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-13** Now in Appropriations
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- **2023-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/20/23, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2023-04-20** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/23
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- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-26** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
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- **2023-04-26** In Messages
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- **2023-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2023-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
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- **2023-04-26** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
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- **2023-04-28** Substituted for HB 6001
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- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-28** Passed; YEAS 104, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2023-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2023-07-10** Chapter No. 2023-319
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17a3c344-e834-4d6c-b5a6-bcd2e8d04e27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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