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type: "Bill"
title: "Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board"
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Florida SB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(claims bills)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-217"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-08-02"
last_action: "2025-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce821c1-94d0-409e-bb9c-f3af8c0b0e38"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/8/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0a0e20ccaedffdb3ae8eaa7a4a05d35e6f813ff36d21e7f9e791a260a40a13af"
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 8 (2025) — Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board
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.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-217.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 8 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/8/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 8 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/8/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **231** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **81** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **350** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1160** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Simon — 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; Education Pre-K - 12; Rules `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** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Education Pre-K - 12
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/25/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/31/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-31** Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-15** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** 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. 2025-217
## Source
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).