Bills › 91st General Assembly
Prohibiting specified provisions in agreements between employers and health care providers relating to location of practice
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 3, 2026
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 3, 2026
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Healthcare workers will no longer be blocked by their old employers from working at certain hospitals or in rural medical areas. This rule stops companies from using contracts to prevent doctors or other providers from practicing in those specific locations. However, these contracts can still stop a healthcare worker from trying to take their old patients with them to a new job.1
Read the official explanation
_____ employment for any reason, a provision of an agreement entered into between the health care provider and the health care provider’s former employer prior to, on, or after the effective date of the bill that limits the right of the health care provider to practice at a hospital eligible for federal designation or federally designated as a critical access hospital or at a medical facility in an area that would qualify as a rural area or for treatment as a rural area under specified federal regulations shall be void and unenforceable. The bill does not apply to a provision of an agreement between a health care provider and the health care provider’s former employer that limits the right of the health care provider to solicit current or former patients of the health care provider.
House subcommittee
Named February 3, 2026. On February 10, 2026 it recommended passage.
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