Beck Reed Riden’s 50-state noncompete chart updated for legislative and other legal developments around the country so far in 2026.
New laws in Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, and New Hampshire continue the expansion of restrictive covenant regulation.
Tennessee’s new noncompete law creates a $70,000 salary threshold, adopts presumptively reasonable timeframes, and takes effect July 1, 2026.
Virginia has passed three new noncompete laws, each of which will will impose new restrictions effective on July 1, 2026.
So far this year, there have been 101 noncompete bills pending in 34 states, 5 of which have died and 6 of which have passed.
Our 50-state noncompete chart has been updated for 2026 wage thresholds and other criteria for use of noncompetes.
Nine states plus D.C. now have some type of notice requirements for companies using restrictive covenants - not just noncompetes. Make sure you are complying with them.
Our first-of-its-kind, regularly updated, 50-state noncompete survey chart has been updated once again.
Our first-of-its-kind, regularly updated, 50-state noncompete survey chart has again been updated for the latest legislative developments.
Four senators reintroduce (again) a ban on employee noncompetes.
Updated June 29, 2025 to count Oregon’s law in the tally and remove Kansas’s law from the tally. With legislative sessions in or headed into recess in many states, it’s time for an update on...
75 state noncompete bills in 35 states. Arkansas and Wyoming pass new laws, Virginia’s bill is pending Governor action, and two have failed.
Washington Supreme Court arguably narrowed the circumstances in which anti-moonlighting provisions for low-wage workers are permissible.
New state noncompete bills are coming in 2025. The first 14 focus on healthcare workers, low-wage workers, full bans, and fines.
Our new training covers what employees should do and avoid doing when they receive or anticipate receiving a cease and desist letter from their prior employer.
Eight states plus D.C. now have some type of notice requirements for companies using restrictive covenants - not just noncompetes. Make sure you are complying with them.
The recording of a roundtable brainstorming session among over 55 restrictive covenant / trade secret / employee mobility lawyers from around the country discussing the nationwide impact of the FTC’s looming noncompete ban is now available.
Rhode Island Governor vetoes noncompete ban. That makes three governors vetoing bans and only one passing a ban.
Rhode Island’s advanced practitioner registered nurse noncompetes exemption may last days, only to be replaced by a full noncompete ban.
Eight states plus D.C. now have some type of notice requirements for companies using noncompetes. Make sure you are complying with them.
Colorado limits training repayment agreements and employee recovery when attorney general brings noncompete enforcement actions.
Rhode Island exempted advanced practitioner registered nurses from noncompetes, while avoiding a full ban on noncompetes.
Maryland is set to restrict noncompetes for physicians and other healthcare providers, and to ban them for veterinarians and vet techs.
The noncompete bill frenzy continues: 32 states with 72 noncompete bills so far, and 6 more in Congress, 7 dead, and 1 (in Washington) passed.