(a) The Attorney General may, pursuant to the Attorney General’s authority under § 3-125, enter into any agreement concerning any state-wide opioid claim, including an agreement to compromise, release, waive or otherwise settle such claim, on behalf of the state and any political subdivisions. For the purposes of this section, “state-wide opioid claim” means any claim the state asserts or could assert concerning the manufacturing, marketing, distributing or selling of opioids, or activities related thereto.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, no claimant may assert any state-wide opioid claim for which the state has entered into an agreement to compromise, release, waive or otherwise settle such claim pursuant to this section.