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Louisville resident Bonnie Lawrence says she felt electricity coming through her 5-year old son's body when she touched him after he collapsed at a baby sitter’s house in 2002.

Isaac was killed after he played in a sprinkler and then touched a metal door on a garage that had been improperly wired without a permit. The contractors weren't indicted, the city couldn't be sued, and Lawrence said she was told repeatedly that her son's death just "fell through the cracks."

"I don't want there to be any more damn cracks,” said Lawrence, who spent the last year fighting for a new law toughening penalties for electric contractors.

"My 5-year-old innocent firstborn child died the way we punish our most heinous criminals," she added. "It makes me sick."

House Bill 28, dubbed "Isaac's Law" and signed last week by Gov. Ernie Fletcher, allows local governments to boost the fines for doing electrical work without a permit to $1,000 for the first offense and $2,000 for subsequent violations from a current maximum of $250.
The new law allows the same potential fines for failure to get an inspection after having electrical work done, and for all other code violations where the penalty is recommended by an electrical inspector.

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