Bill Text: CA SB699 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 699

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Bill Title: Contracts in restraint of trade.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 157, Statutes of 2023. [SB699 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB699-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 699

Introduced by Senator Caballero

February 16, 2023

An act to amend Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 699, as introduced, Caballero. Contracts in restraint of trade.

Existing law regulates business activities in order to maintain competition. Existing law voids contractual provisions by which a person is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind, except as otherwise provided.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the above-described provisions regarding contracts that would restrain engaging in lawful activities.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

16600.

Except as provided in this chapter, ~~every~~ a contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.