Bill Text: TX HB3322 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to covenants not to compete.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB3322 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3322-Introduced.html
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| By: Hunter | H.B. No. 3322 | |
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| relating to covenants not to compete. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 15.50, Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) For purposes of Subsection (b), "relating to the | ||
| practice of medicine" does not include a physician's employment by | ||
| or ownership interest in an entity that is not practicing medicine, | ||
| as that term is defined by Section 151.002, Occupations Code. A | ||
| licensed hospital or a licensed ambulatory center is not an entity | ||
| that is practicing medicine, as that term is defined by Section | ||
| 151.002, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 15.50(d), Business & Commerce Code, as | ||
| added by this Act: | ||
| (1) clarifies the area of law the provision addresses | ||
| and does not substantively change that law; and | ||
| (2) applies to a covenant entered into before, on, or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
