HB 3503 Summary

• Appropriates $950,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities as part of a $1.15 million settlement with J.D.S., a developmentally disabled woman who was raped and impregnated while living in a licensed group home in December 2002.

• The Agency for Persons with Disabilities already paid $200,000 directly to J.D.S. under the settlement agreement; this bill provides the remaining $950,000 through legislative appropriation.

• Funds shall be paid to the AGED Pooled Special Needs Trust, managed by AGED, Inc., a nonprofit trust company, on behalf of J.D.S.

• The combined settlement amount constitutes the sole compensation for all present and future claims arising from the factual situation described in the act.

• Limits attorney fees, lobbying fees, costs, and similar expenses to no more than 25 percent of the amount awarded under this act.