CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 699Introduced by Senator CaballeroFebruary 16, 2023 An act to amend Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 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.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe 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.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 699Introduced by Senator CaballeroFebruary 16, 2023 An act to amend Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 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.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 699
Introduced by Senator CaballeroFebruary 16, 2023
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
## 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.
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.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
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.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## 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.
SECTION 1. Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
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.
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.
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.
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.