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Committee hears bipartisan bill to bar noncompetes for health care providers; sponsors urge preserving Senate compromise
Summary
Representatives on the House Business, Labor & Employment Committee heard Senate Bill 83, which would bar noncompete and non-solicit agreements for physicians and specified health-care providers while preserving negotiated provisions to allow employers to recover certain recruitment costs.
Representatives Brown and Garcia Sander presented Senate Bill 83 to the Business, Labor & Employment Committee, describing a bipartisan measure to prohibit restrictive covenants — including noncompete and non-solicit agreements — for physicians and certain other health-care professionals.
Sponsors said the aim is to protect continuity of care, particularly in rural and underserved areas, by allowing patients to keep seeing trusted providers and by…
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