Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB198: Revise laws that prohibit contracts that restrict practice of health care providers
Status: Signed into law, April 17, 2025
What the bill says
An act revising the prohibition on contracts that restrict the practice of specified health care providers; amending section 28-2-724, mca; and providing an immediate effective date and an applicability date.
From the engrossed text:
AN ACT REVISING THE PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTS THAT RESTRICT THE PRACTICE OF SPECIFIED HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; AMENDING SECTION 28-2-724, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE AND AN APPLICABILITY DATE. Section 1. Section 28-2-724, MCA, is amended to read: "28-2-724. Prohibition of contracts that restrict practice -- applicability -- exceptions. (1) A contract that creates or establishes the terms of employment, a partnership, or any other form of professional relationship with a health care provider described in subsection (2), may not restrict the right of the health care provider, after the termination of the employment, partnership, or other form of professional relationship, to: (a) practice or provide services for which the provider is licensed, in any geographic area and for any period, after the termination of the employment, partnership, or other form of professional relationship; (b) treat, advise, consult with, or establish a provider-patient relationship with any current patient of the employer or with a patient affiliated with a partnership or other form of professional relationship; or (c) solicit or seek to establish a provider-patient relationship with any current patient of the employer or with a patient affiliated with a partnership or other form of professional relationship. (2) The requirements of subsection (1) apply to contracts or agreements involving the following health care providers: (a) a psychiatrist or addiction medicine …
Sponsors
- Etchart, Jodee (R, 51) · primary sponsor
- Lenz, Dennis (R, 25)
Latest actions
- : Chapter Number Assigned
- : (H) Signed by Governor
- : (H) Transmitted to Governor
- : (S) Signed by President
- : (H) Signed by Speaker
- : (H) Returned from Enrolling
- : (H) Sent to Enrolling
- : (S) 3rd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading
- : (S) 2nd Reading
Votes
- Do Concur (March 31, 2025): 48 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Do Concur (March 28, 2025): 47 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do Pass (February 11, 2025): 99 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do Pass (February 10, 2025): 100 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Labor and Employment, Health Care Services, Health, Professions and Occupations Generally
Common questions
- What is HB198?
- HB198 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revise laws that prohibit contracts that restrict practice of health care providers.
- What does HB198 do?
- In its own words: An act revising the prohibition on contracts that restrict the practice of specified health care providers; amending section 28-2-724, mca; and providing an immediate effective date and an applicability date.
- What is the status of HB198?
- Signed into law as of April 17, 2025. Latest action: Chapter Number Assigned (April 17, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB198?
- Etchart, Jodee (R, 51), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB198?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2883
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