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SB 128 — Covenants not to compete; includes health care professionals, civil penalty.

VA 20261 session

Covenants not to compete; health care professionals; civil penalty. Adds health care professionals as a category of employee with or upon whom no employer shall enter into, enforce, or threaten to enforce a covenant not to compete. The bill defines "health care professional" as any person licensed, registered, or certified by the Board of Medicine, Nursing, Counseling, Optometry, Psychology, or Social Work. 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. This bill is identical to HB 627.

Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter

Sponsors (1)
Action timeline (51)
  1. · senate · S4020 —
  2. · senate · S0201 —
  3. · senate · S8500 —
  4. · senate · S8122 —
  5. · senate · S0208 —
  6. · senate · S4640 —
  7. · senate · S4150 —
  8. · senate · S4140 —
  9. · senate · S4160 —
  10. · senate · S4160 —
  11. · senate · S4160 —
  12. · senate · S4120 —
  13. · senate · S4410 —
  14. · senate · S4184 —
  15. · senate · S0202 —
  16. · senate · S0502 —
  17. · senate · S8500 —
  18. · senate · S8500 —
  19. · senate · S0505 —
  20. · senate · S4120 —
  21. · senate · S4600 —
  22. · senate · S5000 —
  23. · house · H5220 —
  24. · house · H4110 —
  25. · house · H1401 —
  26. · house · H1405 —
  27. · house · H4120 —
  28. · house · H4130 —
  29. · house · H5100 —
  30. · senate · S5610 —
  31. · senate · S5601 —
  32. · senate · S8500 —
  33. · house · H5620 —
  34. · senate · S5620 —
  35. · senate · S7010 —
  36. · G7010 —
  37. · G7210 —
  38. · senate · S7300 —
  39. · senate · S4160 —
  40. · G7220 —
  41. · senate · S7300 —
  42. · house · H7300 —
  43. · G7320 —
  44. · senate · S5615 —
  45. · senate · S5602 —
  46. · house · H5620 —
  47. · senate · S5620 —
  48. · senate · S7000 —
  49. · G7010 —
  50. · G7050 —
  51. · G9998 —
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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

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1Schuyler T. VanValkenburg (D, state_upper VA)sponsor0—5
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0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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