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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board"
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description: "Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board; Providing for the relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board; providing an appropriation to compensate Marcus Button for harms and losses he sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the Pasco County School Board; providing an appropriation to Robin Button, as the surviving parent and natural guardian of Marcus Button, for harms and losses sustained as a result of the injury to her child, Marcus Button; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 8"
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citation: "Florida SB 8 (2025)"
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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: "2025-217"
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primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2024-08-02"
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last_action: "2025-07-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce821c1-94d0-409e-bb9c-f3af8c0b0e38"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/8/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "0a0e20ccaedffdb3ae8eaa7a4a05d35e6f813ff36d21e7f9e791a260a40a13af"
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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 (2025) — Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board
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Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board; Providing for the relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board; providing an appropriation to compensate Marcus Button for harms and losses he sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the Pasco County School Board; providing an appropriation to Robin Button, as the surviving parent and natural guardian of Marcus Button, for harms and losses sustained as a result of the injury to her child, Marcus Button; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-217.
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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/2025/8/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 8 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/8/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **23–1** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **8–1** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Simon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-08-02** Filed `filing`
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- **2024-11-20** Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Education Pre-K - 12; Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2025-03-14** Recommendation: Favorable by Special Master on Claim Bills
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- **2025-03-14** Now in Judiciary
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- **2025-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-19** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-19** Now in Education Pre-K - 12
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- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/25/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
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- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/31/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-03-31** Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-31** Now in Rules
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- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-04-08** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
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- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-15** Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
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- **2025-04-15** In Messages
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- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
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- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
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- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-07-01** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-07-08** Chapter No. 2025-217
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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/4ce821c1-94d0-409e-bb9c-f3af8c0b0e38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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