Disney World and the state's other large theme park complexes - Universal Orlando, Sea World and Busch Gardens Tampa - are exempt from most requirements of Florida's laws regulating carnival and smaller amusement park rides.
On Monday, 4-year-old Daudi Bamuwamye passed out on the ride and paramedics responded. He was prounounced dead at 5 p.m. at Celebration Hospital.
Bamuwamye's death has triggered requests for a change in the federal oversight of the nation's theme park industry.
Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts has reportedly spent the past four years fighting for federal regulation.
Markey wants to put an end to the 1981 loophole that lets the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission regulate rides at mobile carnivals but not permanent rides at fixed parks.
