---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete agreements. (8/1/20)"
description: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete agreements. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 345"
citation: "Louisiana SB 345 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/041ed3cd-b777-4980-a748-0b19e7ce2880"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238325"
source_hash: "16ecc6f2907aea94190ec140a9c8afb414cf1d4a875a3fed24b2e86b2756f016"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana SB 345 (2020) — CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete agreements. (8/1/20)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB345 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163706)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2119, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173406)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2133, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173549)
4. **SB345 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181349)
5. **SB345 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169930)
6. **SB345 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172038)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1380, Morris, Jay, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171898)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1142, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170561)
9. **SB345 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177245)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 1380 BY MORRIS, SB 345 BY JOHNS (#173) — **13–23** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR (#438) — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#460) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#174) — **34–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-06-09** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-18** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 3 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/041ed3cd-b777-4980-a748-0b19e7ce2880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).