HLS 24RS-619 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 161
BY REPRESENTATIVE BAYHAM
CONTRACTS: Provides relative to nondisclosure agreements
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 9:2717.3, relative to nondisclosure agreements; to provide for the applicability
3 of nondisclosure agreements; to provide for definitions; to provide for nondisclosure
4 agreements under certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 9:2717.3 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง2717.3. Nondisclosure agreement; hostile work environment; sexual harassment
8 A. For purposes of this Section:
9 (1) "Hostile work environment" means conditions where harassment rises
10 to the level that it alters the ability of an employee to perform the employee's duties.
11 (2) "Sexual harassment" means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for
12 sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature
13 when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment,
14 unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an
15 intimidating or offensive work environment.
16 B. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a nondisclosure agreement
17 required by an employer shall not be judicially enforceable in a dispute involving
18 workplace sexual harassment or a hostile work environment.
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are additions. HLS 24RS-619 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 161
DIGEST
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of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 161 Original 2024 Regular Session Bayham
Abstract: Provides that a nondisclosure agreement does not apply in sexual harassment
cases or in a hostile work environment.
Proposed law defines "hostile work environment".
Proposed law defines "sexual harassment".
Proposed law provides that nondisclosure agreements are not enforceable in sexual
harassment cases or a hostile work environment.
(Adds R.S. 9:2717.3)
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