---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act prohibiting the enforcement of certain noncompete covenants entered into by health care practitioners and employers and providing for a study by the Health Care Cost Containment"
description: "An Act prohibiting the enforcement of certain noncompete covenants entered into by health care practitioners and employers and providing for a study by the Health Care Cost Containment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1633"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1633 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Frankel"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 26
vote_count: 15
first_action: "2023-08-29T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b44e8539-db9b-49e4-9f1e-9f9bffebba9b"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=55&rollcallid=1485&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "1b49c67eb0b5de1c5b877ea82a5ddee46a96d19405bc438394c84815cbbb7564"
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-pa"]
---

# Pennsylvania HB 1633 (2023-2024) — An Act prohibiting the enforcement of certain noncompete covenants entered into by health care practitioners and employers and providing for a study by the Health Care Cost Containment

## Version chain

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

1. **House Amendment A03756** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A03756)
2. **House Amendment A03789** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A03789)
3. **House Amendment A03814** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A03814)
4. **House Amendment A03902** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A03902)
5. **House Amendment A03913** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A03913)
6. **Printer's No. PN1917** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN1917)
7. **Printer's No. PN1960** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN1960)
8. **Printer's No. PN2817** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN2817)
9. **Printer's No. PN2959** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN2959)
10. **Printer's No. PN3486** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN3486)
11. **Printer's No. PN3504** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1633/PN3504)
12. **Senate Amendment A05412** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A05412)
13. **Senate Amendment A05519** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A05519)

## Votes

- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Health): Report Bill As Amended — **21–4** (pass) · lower
- A3902 — **124–77** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health & Human Services): Reported as Amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **18–15** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health): Adopt Amendment — **22–3** (pass) · lower
- CONSTITUTIONALITY — **136–64** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **150–50** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **155–46** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health): Adopt Amendment — **24–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- A3913 — **99–102** (fail) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health): Adopt Amendment — **25–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health & Human Services): Adopt Amendment — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dan Frankel — primary (person)
- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Bridget Kosierowski — cosponsor (person)
- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Williams — cosponsor (person)
- David Delloso — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn Keefer — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth Fiedler — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer O'Mara — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
- Kristine Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Borowski — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Shusterman — cosponsor (person)
- Napoleon J. Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Pisciottano — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Krajewski — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Innamorato — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)
- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-29T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-06T04:00:00+00:00** Corrective Reprint, Printer's No. 1960
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2024-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2024-07-08T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00** Amended on third consideration `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2024-07-12T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 74 of 2024

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b44e8539-db9b-49e4-9f1e-9f9bffebba9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).