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