Torts; limitation of action; extending period for certain health care liability claims based on good faith belief of a federal procedural bar; emergency.

HB 3119 extends the deadline for filing health care liability claims (like malpractice or negligence cases) in Oklahoma when a claimant or their attorney reasonably believed a federal law (specifically the PREP Act) blocked filing. It allows claims to be filed up to one year after that "good faith belief" ends, applying only to claims arising on or after February 1, 2020. The bill clarifies that the deadline pause doesn’t revive claims already barred before the law took effect and requires courts to interpret it broadly to preserve access to justice when federal rules were mistakenly thought to apply. This directly affects patients or their attorneys who delayed filing due to a reasonable, but later incorrect, belief that federal immunity prevented their case.