SB30 Summary

• Provides civil immunity to covered entities (businesses, health care providers, educational institutions, churches, governments, and cultural institutions) from liability for coronavirus-related claims, unless defendant acted with wanton, reckless, willful, or intentional misconduct.

• Limits damages in non-serious physical injury cases to actual economic compensatory damages only, prohibiting noneconomic and punitive damages except for wrongful death claims.

• Health care providers receive additional immunity for acts or omissions during pandemic response that resulted from lack of resources or were done in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, absent wanton, reckless, willful, or intentional misconduct.

• Establishes a two-year statute of limitations for filing health emergency claims related to Coronavirus exposure or contraction.

• Applies retroactively to causes of action filed on or after March 13, 2020, with immunity provisions terminating December 31, 2021, or one year after the declared health emergency expires, whichever is later; liability arising from acts during the act's operation remains subject to its protections indefinitely.