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type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 10"
citation: "Florida SB 10 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-215"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "Pizzo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-08-02"
last_action: "2025-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2b1890c-4da4-4631-a7ae-60caedf5a58f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/10/ByCategory"
source_hash: "205786298a2fc567fec8e99386f26e031726da88384c57dd62fddc629cf4410f"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/10/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 10 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/10/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 10 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/10/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **160** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2b1890c-4da4-4631-a7ae-60caedf5a58f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).