This Week in South Florida: Andy and Melissa Fernandez

House Bill 289, also known as “Lucy’s Law,” has passed the Florida House Of Representatives.

The bill is named after 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez, who died in a boating crash in 2022.

Lucy’s parents, Andy and Melissa Fernandez, joined This Week in South Florida host Janine Stanwood to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

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Janine Stanwood

Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. She is now a general assignment reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the senior legislative correspondent for a United States senator on Capitol Hill.