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2024 SESSION
SB 360 Employment; definitions, covenants not to compete prohibited, limitations, civil penalty.
Introduced by: Schuyler T. VanValkenburg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Covenants not to compete; health care professionals; civil penalty. Adds health care professionals as a category of employee with whom no employer shall enter into, enforce, or threaten to enforce a covenant not to compete. The bill defines "health care professional" as any physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, pharmacist, social worker, dietitian, physical and occupational therapist, professional counselor, behavior analyst, assistant behavior analyst, or medical technologist authorized to provide health care services in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that any employer that violates the prohibition against covenants not to compete with a health care professional is subject to the civil penalty in current law of $10,000 for each violation.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102716D pdf
- 01/25/24 Senate: Floor substitute printed 24106072D-S1 (McPike) pdf
- 02/05/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106886D-S2 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102716D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/22/24 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (11-Y 2-N 1-A)
- 01/24/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/24 Senate: Floor substitute printed 24106072D-S1 (McPike)
- 01/25/24 Senate: Read second time
- 01/25/24 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 01/25/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/25/24 Senate: Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 24106072D-S1
- 01/25/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB360S1
- 01/26/24 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
- 01/26/24 Senate: Recommitted to Commerce and Labor
- 02/05/24 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/05/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106886D-S2
- 02/07/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/24 Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Substitute by Senator McPike reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Substitute by Senator McPike rejected 24106072D-S1
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106886D-S2
- 02/08/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB360S2
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Defeated by Senate (11-Y 28-N 1-A)