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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 16: Relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 16 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on August 2, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Primary sponsor: Shev Jones (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Special Master on Claim Bills.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Providing for the relief of the Estate of Danielle Maudsley; providing an appropriation to compensate the estate for Ms. Maudsley’s death as a result of the alleged negligence of Trooper Daniel Cole and the Florida Highway Patrol, a division of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $1,750,000

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shev JonesPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate34

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Special Master on Claim Bills
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Introduced
  4. Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations
  5. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source