Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 26 Ì9067909Î906790 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 03/23/2021 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Judiciary (Cruz) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete line 112 4 and insert: 5 exceed $612,500, the total amount paid for lobbying fees may not 6 exceed $122,500, and the total amount paid for costs or other 7 similar expenses may not exceed $20,906.04. 8 9 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 10 And the title is amended as follows: 11 Delete lines 41 - 86 12 and insert: 13 WHEREAS, at 3:30 a.m., approximately 13 minutes after 14 arriving at Ms. Galloway’s home, the paramedics employed by 15 Hillsborough County Fire Rescue left without Ms. Galloway and 16 reported the incident as “Nontransport/No Patient Found” and 17 “Nontransport/Cancel,” and 18 WHEREAS, while Ms. Black was transporting Ms. Galloway to 19 the hospital in her personal vehicle, Ms. Galloway began having 20 seizures, and a CT scan of her brain performed at the emergency 21 room later revealed an acute subarachnoid hemorrhage, most 22 likely secondary to an aneurysm, and 23 WHEREAS, as the facility where Ms. Galloway was first 24 admitted was not equipped to handle the required neurological 25 interventions, Ms. Galloway was later transported to Tampa 26 General Hospital, where she underwent a cerebral angiogram with 27 coil placement into the aneurysm, and 28 WHEREAS, despite efforts by physicians at Tampa General 29 Hospital to treat Ms. Galloway, she passed away on July 9, 2018, 30 and 31 WHEREAS, as the Hillsborough County Board of County 32 Commissioners provides emergency medical and health care 33 services to its residents through entities that include 34 Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, paramedics employed by 35 Hillsborough County Fire Rescue are employees and agents of the 36 Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, and 37 WHEREAS, such employees of the Hillsborough County Board of 38 County Commissioners had a duty to use reasonable care in the 39 treatment of Ms. Galloway, and 40 WHEREAS, such employees of the Hillsborough County Board of 41 County Commissioners breached that duty by deviating from the 42 acceptable and appropriate standards of care in providing 43 inadequate care to Ms. Galloway, and 44 WHEREAS, the Estate of Crystle Marie Galloway alleged, 45 through a lawsuit filed October 17, 2019, in the Circuit Court 46 of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Hillsborough 47 County, that the negligence of the Hillsborough County Board of 48 County Commissioners, through its employees, was the proximate 49 cause of Ms. Galloway’s death, and 50 WHEREAS, following the filing of the lawsuit, the 51 Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and the Estate 52 of Crystle Marie Galloway reached a settlement agreement in the 53 amount of $2.75 million, of which $300,000 has been paid to the