Six-year-old Julie Ann Lister loved being a little girl. This video, taken this past Easter, shows Julie, in white, and her nine-year-old brother Michael hunting for Easter eggs.

"I remember one time her older brother's birthday. She only had five-dollars in her purse, in her pocketbook and she gave it to her older brother. So she's a very giving child," Gary Lister, Julie's grandfather said.

But Julie's young life was cut short in October, when she and her brother were hit by a car walking across front beach road to their school bus stop in Laguna Beach.

Julie was killed at the scene. Michael suffered a broken leg and arm.

"It's been devastating," Lister said.

Lister is asking state lawmakers to address the on-going problem.

"When children are picked up mainly in the morning on the major highways at least grade school or middle school children have little to no protection by laws at all," Lister said.

Another problem is driver education. When she heard about Lister's death, school bus driver Yvonne Ulloa decided to do everything in her power to make sure the children along her route are safe.

But almost daily she says at least two to three cars run ignore the "stop signals on her bus and keep driving.

"I guess they are in a hurry to get to school or work and they don't want to stop," Ulloa said.

But others are just ignorant of the rules. In Florida a driver must stop for a school bus on just about every road. The only exception is a highway or road with at least a five-foot wide median that's unpaved, or raised.

Bus drivers also play a huge role in the children's safety.

"The rule is they stand back until my bus comes to a complete stop and they watch me if they are having to cross the road because I nod my head and then they know to cross the road," Ulloa said.

"We teach our drivers to make sure to stop the buses, direct the students to cross the streets in a timely manner. Make sure you hold the stop sign out about three to five minutes and do not ask the students to come across until all the motorists are stopped," Ken Phillips, Bay District Schools Supervisor of Transportation said.

Lister says his granddaughter is in a better place now. But he wants state lawmakers to take steps to keep the other 14,000 Bay District School students, riding a bus each day, from having their lives cut short.

"This would mean a great deal to me if they could at least take a look at it. Make some suggestions," Lister added.

Lister wants the legislature to pass a law, banning elementary and middle school bus stops from being located in urban areas that have major traffic flows. He also is asking them to consider a 25 mile-per-hour speed limit during school bus operating hours.

For more information on school bus safety, just long onto www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/childps/newtips/pages/Tip10.htm