1.    A person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response to COVID-19 is immune from civil liability for any personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from the design, manufacturing, labeling, selling, distributing, or donating of the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product.

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2.    A person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response to COVID-19 is immune from civil liability for any personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from a failure to provide proper instruction or sufficient warning.

3.    The immunity provided under subsections 1 and 2 does not apply:

a.    To a person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product:

(1) With actual knowledge of a defect in the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product when put to the use for which the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product was designed, manufactured, sold, distributed, or donated; and

(2) If the person recklessly disregarded a substantial and unnecessary risk the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product would cause serious personal injury, death, or serious property damage; or

b.    If the person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product acts with actual malice.