Senate Bill 100 Summary

• Establishes a two-year statute of limitations for product liability actions based on personal injury, disability, disease, or death from exposure to hazardous substances (replacing prior asbestos-specific language).

• Creates a two-year limitations period for occupational disease claims based on hazardous substance exposure, beginning when the employee knew or should have known of the disease and its causal relationship to employment.

• Provides a two-year limitations period for construction defect actions involving hazardous substance exposure, measured from when the injured person knew of the injury and its connection to a construction deficiency.

• Establishes a one-year window (July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012) to file otherwise time-barred hazardous substance exposure claims that were barred before July 1, 2011.

• Expands hazardous substance definition to include any material determined hazardous by federal environmental or safety agencies, or any substance potentially hazardous to persons, property, or the environment.