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Prohibiting specified provisions in agreements between employers and certain mental health professionals and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Topics:Health careJobs & workersMental health & addiction
Same legislation: HSB 8
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: House committeeJanuary 17, 2023
- Done: Passes the HouseJanuary 26, 202395–0
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 30, 2023
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 24, 202349–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 9, 2023
- Done: Signed into lawJune 1, 2023
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Employers cannot make contracts that stop licensed mental health professionals from working in certain locations or contacting their former patients. These rules also prevent employers from putting time limits on how these professionals practice. Any existing agreements that break these rules would no longer be valid.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits an employer from entering into an agreement with a licensed mental health professional, as defined in the bill, that limits the location at which the licensee may practice, prohibits the licensee from contacting for professional services a person previously treated by the licensee, or imposes a time restriction on the practice of the licensee. A provision of an agreement entered into between an employer and a licensed mental health professional prior to, on, or H.F. after the effective date of the bill that is contrary to the bill shall be void and unenforceable. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 31, 2023. On March 22, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
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