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(1) Y2K actionThe term “Y2K action”—
(A)
means a civil action commenced in any Federal or State court, or an agency board of contract appeal proceeding, in which the plaintiff’s alleged harm or injury arises from or is related to an actual or potential Y2K failure, or a claim or defense arises from or is related to an actual or potential Y2K failure;
(B)
includes a civil action commenced in any Federal or State court by a government entity when acting in a commercial or contracting capacity; but
(C)
does not include an action brought by a government entity acting in a regulatory, supervisory, or enforcement capacity.
(2) Y2K failureThe term “Y2K failure” means failure by any device or system (including any computer system and any microchip or integrated circuit embedded in another device or product), or any software, firmware, or other set or collection of processing instructions to process, to calculate, to compare, to sequence, to display, to store, to transmit, or to receive year-2000 date-related data, including failures—
(A)
to deal with or account for transitions or comparisons from, into, and between the years 1999 and 2000 accurately;
(B)
to recognize or accurately to process any specific date in 1999, 2000, or 2001; or
(C)
accurately to account for the year 2000’s status as a leap year, including recognition and processing of the correct date on February 29, 2000.