Florida Senate - 2007                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 74
                        Barcode 055006
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11  Senator Wise moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 3, line 21, delete "$1.2 million"
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16  and insert:  $1,059,738
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20  And the title is amended as follows:
21         On page 1, line 15, through
22            page 3, line 9, delete those lines
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25         WHEREAS, on February 11, 2005, Brooke Ingoldsby, an
26  8-year-old third grader at James B. Sanderlin Elementary
27  School, was being transported home on a school bus of the
28  Pinellas County School Board which was driven by a substitute
29  bus driver employed by the school board, and
30         WHEREAS, rather than depositing Brooke, who was the
31  last student on the bus, at her appointed bus stop where her
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    Florida Senate - 2007                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 74
                        Barcode 055006
 1  grandmother was waiting for her, the substitute bus driver
 2  dropped Brooke off on the corner of 90th Avenue and the east
 3  side of 9th Street North, a busy thoroughfare in St.
 4  Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, and
 5         WHEREAS, Brooke was subsequently struck by a southbound
 6  sports utility vehicle in the west-most southbound lane of 9th
 7  Street North and was pronounced dead 3 hours later at Bayfront
 8  Medical Center, and
 9         WHEREAS, Brooke suffered multisystem trauma, head
10  injury, bilateral closed femur injury, a closed right humerus
11  fracture, and a severe abrasion to her right waistline, and
12         WHEREAS, the Pinellas County School Board admitted
13  liability for Brooke's death and agreed to pay the total sum
14  of $2.5 million for the damages and losses sustained by the
15  estate of Brooke Ingoldsby and for the losses suffered by
16  Brooke's mother, Michelle Allen, and
17         WHEREAS, judgment was entered in the amount of $2.5
18  million, including $200,000 in damages and losses sustained by
19  the estate of Brooke Ingoldsby and $2.3 million for the losses
20  suffered by Brooke's mother, Michelle Allen, and
21         WHEREAS, the school district has paid $100,000 to the
22  estate and $100,000 for the losses suffered by Michelle Allen,
23  thus exhausting the limits of the waiver of sovereign
24  immunity, and
25         WHEREAS, the school district maintained a liability
26  policy of $1 million, which was paid to Michelle Allen, and
27         WHEREAS, Michelle Allen has received $140,262 from
28  insurance policies and other collateral sources, NOW,
29  THEREFORE,
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