SS/SB 117 - This act modifies provisions relating to statutes of limitations. Current law provides that actions against hospitals and other entities providing health care services for damages for malpractice, negligence, error, or mistake related to health care are to be brought within two years from the date of occurrence of the act of neglect complained of, except that a minor less than eighteen years of age shall have until his or her twentieth birthday. This act provides that actions for damages against hospitals and other entities for malpractice, negligence, error, or mistake related to the provision of gender transition services to minors are to be brought within ten years. Currently, actions for personal injury shall be brought within five years from the time the injury occurred. This act states that actions for personal injury are to be brought within two years from the time the injury occurred. Additionally, current actions against an insurer relating to uninsured motorist coverage or underinsured motorist coverage, including any action to enforce such coverage, are to be brought within ten years. This act modifies the statute of limitations for such actions to be brought within two years. Currently, all assault and battery actions are to be brought within two years. This act provides that actions for assault, battery, or personal injury based on certain sexual offenses shall be brought within five years. These provisions are similar to HB 272 (2023), provisions in SB 708 (2023), SS/SCS/SB 631 (2022), SB 1243 (2022), HB 2206 (2022), provisions in SS/SB 3 (2021), in HCS/SCS/SB 119 (2021), HB 855 (2021), in HCS/HB 922 (2021), SB 633 (2020), SB 96 (2019), and SB 934 (2018). KATIE O'BRIEN