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Fla. Stat. § 11.065 (2025)
Claims against state; limitations; notice.
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11.065 Claims against state; limitations; notice.—
(1) No claims against the state shall be presented to the Legislature more than 4 years after the cause for relief accrued. Any claim presented after this time of limitation shall be void and unenforceable.
(2) All relief acts of the Legislature shall be for payment in full. No further claims for relief shall be submitted to the Legislature in the future.
(3) Notice shall be given as provided in s. 11.02 prior to the introduction of any relief act which provides for the payment of the claim from funds scheduled for distribution to a municipality from the revenue-sharing trust fund for municipalities.
Note.—Former s. 95.37.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1981–2017 · leading case: Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Educ. Expense Bd. v. Coll. Sav. Bank, 527 U.S. 627 (1999).
Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Educ. Expense Bd. v. Coll. Sav. Bank, 527 U.S. 627 (1999). “Aggrieved parties may pursue a legislative remedy through a claims bill for payment in full, Fla. Stat. § 11.065 (1997), or a judicial remedy through a takings or conversion claim, see Jacobs Wind Electric Co.”
State Dep't of Env't Prot. v. Garcia, 99 So. 3d 539 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011). “28 from the City, and as the Department read section 11.065(2), Florida Statutes, 1 the Garcias were limited to seeking only one claims bill from the Legislature for the incident.”
Wagner v. Orange Cnty., 960 So. 2d 785 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007). “§ 11.065, Fla. Stat. The legislature has set a cap on tort recovery from a governmental entity, in an action at law, at 0,000 per person and 0,000 per accident.”
Lisca v. Florida Atl. Constr., Inc., 219 So. 3d 872 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). “Another defendant, the Department of Environmental Protection, then filed a motion for summary judgment on one of its affirmative defenses, arguing that section 11.065(2), Florida Statutes (1978), precluded the Garcias from presenting another claims bill to the legislature for…”
Cauley v. City of Jacksonville, 403 So. 2d 379 (Fla. 1981). “See §§ 11.065, 768.28(5), Fla. Stat. (1979). [6] The Devon court cited as authority R.”
JACOBS WIND ELEC. v. Dept. of Transp., 626 So. 2d 1333 (Fla. 1993). “NOTES [1] Judge Padgett of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court denied the Department of Transportation's motion to dismiss Jacobs Wind Electric Company, Inc.'s claim based on lack of state court jurisdiction, and the district court issued a writ of prohibition.”
Coll. Sav. Bank, & United States v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Educ. Expense Bd., 148 F.3d 1343 (2d Cir. 1998). “Absent a constitutional violation, Florida Prepaid continues, Congress is without power to abrogate under the Fourteenth Amendment. This argument, although beguiling, must fail.”
— 11.065(2) — 2 cases
State Dep't of Env't Prot. v. Garcia, 99 So. 3d 539 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011). “28 from the City, and as the Department read section 11.065(2), Florida Statutes, 1 the Garcias were limited to seeking only one claims bill from the Legislature for the incident.”
Lisca v. Florida Atl. Constr., Inc., 219 So. 3d 872 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). “Another defendant, the Department of Environmental Protection, then filed a motion for summary judgment on one of its affirmative defenses, arguing that section 11.065(2), Florida Statutes (1978), precluded the Garcias from presenting another claims bill to the legislature for…”
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