More than 14 years after she was raped and impregnated while in the care of a state-licensed group home in Orlando, a severely mentally disabled woman may finally receive the payout on her settlement.

TALLAHASSEE — More than 14 years after she was raped and impregnated while in the care of a state-licensed group home in Orlando, a severely mentally disabled woman may finally receive the payout on her settlement.

The Florida Senate on Friday voted 37-1 to pass HB 6501, which awards $950,000 in state money to J.D.S., as the woman is known in court files, and her caretakers, an agency called AGED Inc.

The bill now heads to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk.

“Justice is served,” said Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood, who sponsored the House version of the bill. “This will provide various kinds of therapy to allow her to lead a more normal life.”

Lawyers for J.D.S. secured a $1.15 million settlement in 2012, but state liability payments are capped at $200,000 by state law. The Legislature must pass a bill, known as a claims bill, for the rest to be paid out.

J.D.S. was born with cerebral palsy, autism and mental retardation. She was 22 when she was assaulted and impregnated by Philip Strong, co-owner of the Strong Group Home, who was 78 at the time.

Orange County Circuit Judge Alan Lawson, who was named to the Florida Supreme Court this year, determined Strong had dementia and was not competent to stand trial.

The discovery of her pregnancy, and then-Gov. Jeb Bush’s attempt to get a court to appoint a guardian of the fetus, set off a firestorm of controversy about whether she should be forced to give birth to a disabled child. She eventually did give birth to a child with cerebral palsy in August 2003; the baby was given up for adoption.

J.D.S. is now cared for in a women’s only group home in Central Florida.

Under the bill, attorneys’ fees are capped at $237,000, and lobbyists’ fees are capped at $47,500.

During settlement talks in 2011, doctors who examined J.D.S. placed her average lifetime expectancy at less than 48 years, and they estimated the cost of her care at $11.3 million.

Claims bills have often struggled to get through the Legislature, and some lawmakers vote against all claims bills because they feel the process is unfair and arbitrary.

But Plakon said House Speaker Richard Corcoran, RLand O’Lakes, has emphasized redressing past injustices this year.

“What a theme seems to be this session is, to right wrongs,” Plakon said. “And to the extent that J.D.S. was clearly harmed under state care, this is another example of righting wrongs.”