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FL S2222

CL

Status

Introduced

5/3/2011

Primary Sponsor

Oscar Braynon

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Origin

Senate

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes Miami-Dade County to appropriate and pay $1,010,000 to Ronnie Lopez and Robert Guzman as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Ana-Yency Velasquez for the benefit of three minor children.

  • Compensates the estate and minor children for the death of Ana-Yency Velasquez, age 23, resulting from a Miami-Dade County police officer's negligence on February 23, 2009, when the officer's vehicle broadsided her car at an intersection without lights or sirens engaged.

  • Establishes that the $1,010,000 award provides sole compensation for all present and future claims arising from Ana-Yency Velasquez's death.

  • Limits attorney's fees, lobbying fees, costs, and similar expenses to a maximum of 25 percent of the total amount awarded.

  • Becomes effective upon becoming law.

Legislative Description

Relief/Lopez and Guzman/Miami-Dade County

Last Action

Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration

5/7/2011

Full Bill Text

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