TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Elizabeth "Budd" Bell, who helped draft the Baker Act that's designed to protect the rights of people with mental illness, has died. She was 94.

The retired human services lobbyist was also known as "the conscience of Florida.

She died Friday in Tallahassee, according to a statement by her daughter, Bonnie Bell. A memorial service is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Florida State University Alumni Conference Center.

Bell founded what's now known as the Budd Bell Clearinghouse on Human Services, an advocacy coalition of about 200 organizations, in 1974 and helped create The Florida Center for Children & Youth.

A native of Winnipeg, Canada, she moved to the United States in 1949 with her husband, gerontologist William Bell, who died in 1991.