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CS/HB 6511: Relief/Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office

CLAIMS/LOCAL BILL by Civil Justice and Property Rights Subcommittee ; Plakon

Relief/Ricardo Medrano-Arzate and Eva Chavez-Medrano/Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office; Provides for relief of Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano, as personal representatives of Hilda Medrano, by the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; provides for appropriation of funds to pay Ricardo Medrano-Arzate & Eva Chavez-Medrano for damages awarded in connection with death of their daughter as result of negligence of Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office; provides limitation on payment of attorney fees. CLAIM: $4,425,000

Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Last Action: 3/14/2022 House - Died in Judiciary Committee
Bill Text: PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
10/12/2021 House • Filed
10/22/2021 House • Referred to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
• Referred to Judiciary Committee
• Now in Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
1/11/2022 House • 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
1/14/2022 House • Added to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee agenda
1/19/2022 House • Favorable with CS by Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
1/20/2022 House • Reported out of Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
• Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
• CS Filed
• 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
1/21/2022 House • Referred to Judiciary Committee
• Now in Judiciary Committee
3/12/2022 House • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
3/14/2022 House • Died in Judiciary Committee