HB 1664 - Hudson, Brad
Modifies provisions relating to statutes of limitations
Bill Details
Sponsor
LR Number
4713H.02P
Title
HCS HBs 1664, 1610, 1645 & 2182
House Handler
Journal Page
N/A
Effective Date
August 28, 2026
Committee
Current Status
Informal Calendar H Bills for Third Reading
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CURRENT BILL SUMMARY
SS/HCS/HBs 1664, 1610, 1645 & 2182 - This act modifies provisions relating to statutes of limitations for certain civil actions.
PERSONAL INJURY AND UNINSURED OR UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE(SECTIONS 516.120 & 516.130)
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 that accrue on or after August 28, 2026, are to be brought within three years from the time the injury occurred. Additionally, current actions against an insurer that accrue on or after August 28, 2026, 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 three years.
These provisions are substantially similar to provisions in HB 68 (2025), SB 853 (2024), HB 1964 (2024), SB 117 (2023), HB 272 (2023), SB 708 (2023), in SCS/SB 631 (2022), in SB 1243 (2022), in HCS/SCS/SB 119 (2021), and in HCS/HB 922 (2021), HB 2206 (2022), SB 934 (2018), and are similar to HB 506 (2025), SS/SB 3 (2021), HB 855 (2021), SB 633 (2020), and SB 96 (2019).
CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE ACTIONS (SECTION 537.046)
This act modifies provisions relating to childhood sexual abuse actions. Specifically, childhood sexual abuse actions are defined as any act that occurred when the plaintiff was under the age of eighteen and that act would have been a violation of certain criminal offenses, including the offense of sexual exploitation of a minor.
This act provides that civil actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse shall be brought within forty-four, instead of ten, years after the victim reaches the age of twenty-one or within three years of the victim discovering that the injury or illness was caused by childhood sexual abuse, whichever is later, if the action is brought against a person who committed the childhood sexual abuse against the plaintiff, would be criminally responsible for childhood sexual abuse committed by another person against the plaintiff, or would be criminally responsible under the offense of hindering prosecution by hindering the prosecution of person responsible for the childhood sexual abuse committed against the plaintiff. Any childhood sexual abuse action to recover damages from any other person shall be brought within five years of the plaintiff attaining twenty-one years of age.
These provisions relating to childhood sexual abuses actions shall apply to any action arising on or after August 28, 2026.
This provision is similar to SB 1140 (2026), a provision in SB 1707 (2026), HB 114 (2025), in SB 148 (2025), in HCS/HB 219 (2025), SB 589 (2025), SB 747 (2025), HB 883 (2025), HB 1132 (2025), in SB 831 (2024) and HB 367 (2023).
KATIE O'BRIEN