SF 2130 (see companion bill HF 1917) – Minnesota
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician-patient relationship preservation by prohibiting noncompete agreements authorization.
SF 2302 – Iowa
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill relates to noncompete covenants contained within employment contracts and provisions that are prohibited and void. The bill provides definitions for “covenant not to solicit”, “earnings”, and “noncompete covenant”. The bill provides that if …
SF 298 – Iowa
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
A bill for an act relating to agreements limiting the locations of practice of persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or pharmacy.
SF 304 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants – agreements that restrict employees from working for a competing employer for a certain period after leaving their current jobs – by putting certain restrictions. For instance, if …
SF 327 (see companion bill HF 357) – Iowa
Introduced: 2023 Status: Inactive / Dead
An act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entitites, providing for the use of annual registration fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions
SF 350 (see companion bill HF 557) – Minnesota
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician restrictive noncompete agreements prohibition. This bill makes void and unenforceable any agreement that prohibits a physician from practicing in a specific geographic area for a specific period of time after the physician ends an …
SF 426 – Iowa
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
An act relating to prohibitions of noncompete covenants involving nurses and including applicability provisions
SF 426 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants (agreements restricting an employee from working for competitors or starting a similar business post-employment) involving nurses. Noncompete covenants for nurses making less than 150% of the minimum wage …
SF 496 – Iowa
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
A bill for an act prohibiting employers from entering into noncompete agreements with low-wage employees. (Formerly SSB 1147.)
SSB 1031 – Iowa
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill relates to the circumstances under which employers can enter into noncompete agreements with employees. The bill defines a noncompete agreement to include every written or oral covenant, agreement, or contract by which an …
SSB 1147 (renumbered as SF 496) – Iowa
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
A bill for an act prohibiting employers from entering into noncompete agreements with low-wage employees. (Renumbered as SF 496)
Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-1-148. Restrictions on health care provider practice: Division of Health Related Boards — General Provisions – Tennessee
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2007
A restriction on the right of an employed or contracted healthcare provider to practice the healthcare provider’s profession upon termination or conclusion of the employment or contractual relationship shall be deemed reasonable if: (1) The …
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Tex. Bus. & Comm. Code §§ 15.50 through 15.52: Covenants Not to Compete – Texas
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1989
A covenant not to compete… is enforceable against a person licensed as a physician…if such covenant…(A) [does] not deny the physician access to a list of his patients whom he had seen or treated within …
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Utah Code §§ 34-51-101 through 34-51-301: Post-Employment Restrictions Act – Utah
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2016
For a post-employment restrictive covenant entered into on or after May 10, 2016, an employer and an employee may not enter into a post-employment restrictive covenant for a period of more than one year from …
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Va. Code Ann. § 54.1-111. Unlawful acts; prosecution; proceedings in equity; civil penalty: Professions and Occupations — General Provisions Relating to Regulatory Boards – Virginia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1988
Code section permits professional corporations and similar entities (defined in the statute) to enforce non-competes and other contract terms in employment contracts when the entitiy has “a legitimate interest in enforcing the terms of employment …
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W. Va. Code §§ 47-11E-1 through 47-11E-5: Physicians Freedom of Practice Act – West Virginia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2017
A covenant not to compete contained in a contract between a physician and an employer shall be limited to not more than: (1) One year in duration; and (2) Thirty road miles from the physician’s …
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