Coral Gables Republican Rep. Demi Busatta is bringing back a claims bill seeking to compensate a child who was brutally stabbed by her mother in 2015.

The measure ( HB 6503 ) seeks $28 million in compensation for a child known as “ L.P. ” after a court found that state authorities ignored several warnings about the mental well-being of her mother, resulting in the attempted murder of the child.

Sarasota Republican Sen. Joe Gruters filed a similar measure ( SB 12 ) in 2025, but the bill died.

In June 2015, when L.P. was 6 years old, a family member notified the Sarasota Police Department, requesting a welfare check of her mother after she sent a suicide video to several family members.

Sarasota Police then contacted the Department of Children and Families ( DCF

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