Bills › 89th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
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 employee is prohibited or restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind. The bill excludes a nonsolicitation agreement, confidentiality agreement, or agreement prohibiting use or disclosure of trade secrets or inventions from this definition.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that a noncompete agreement entered into between an employer and an employee on or after the effective date of the bill is void and unenforceable against an employee in certain specified circumstances relating to contingent offers of employment, contingent offers of bona fide advancement, entering into a noncompete agreement in order to continue employment by the employer after a substantial change in circumstances of the employer, an employee’s earnings not exceeding $41,600 per year, termination of employment if not for good cause, the noncompete agreement exceeding months in duration, the employee participating in a program registered with the United States department of labor, office of apprenticeship, the employee being an undergraduate or graduate student working as an intern or in other short-term employment, or the employee being under years of age. The bill prohibits a franchisor from restricting, restraining, or prohibiting in any way a franchisee from soliciting or hiring any employee of a franchisee of the same franchisor. The bill prohibits a franchisor from restricting, restraining, or prohibiting in any way a franchisee from soliciting or hiring any employee of the franchisor. The bill applies to noncompete agreements entered into between an employer and an employee on or after the effective date of the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 12, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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