Pennsylvania HB 2636: An Act prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in health care practitioner employment agreements.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3602
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2636
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY ROWE, JUNE 15, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 15, 2026
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Penn
Township Municipal Authority certain lands situate in Penn
Township, Snyder County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in Penn Township, Snyder County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Penn
Township Municipal Authority certain lands situate in Penn
Township, Snyder County, that is to be subdivided from Tax
Parcel 13-07-036 as referenced in Deed Book 52, Page 144 for the
fair market value of $63,000.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
subsection (a) consists of approximately 5.2988 acres and
improvements thereon bounded and more particularly described as
follows:
All that certain piece, parcel, and lot of land situate in
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Penn Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania and shown upon a
subdivision plan as Proposed Lot 1 by Larson Design Group, file
5320-021, bounded and described as follows;
Commencing at an existing iron pin on the northerly line of
lands of Penn Township Municipal Authority (Tax Parcel 13-03-
251A), said iron pin also being on a southerly line of lands of
Penn Township Road Supervisors (Tax Parcel 13-03-026);
Thence along said Tax Parcel 13-03-026, S 88° 21' 35" W,
50.74' to the southeasterly corner of T-503 (Gaugler Lane);
Thence along said T-503 by the following two (2) courses and
distances:
1. N 16° 06' 59" W, 40.00' to a point;
2. S 73° 53' 01" W, 33.05' to a set iron pin at the
southeasterly corner of the parcel herein described, said iron
pin also being the true point and place of beginning;
Thence from the point and place of beginning and continuing
along the northerly line of said T-503, S 73° 53' 01' W, 460.00'
to a set iron pin;
Thence through the lands of the Grantor by the following
three (3) courses and distances:
1. N 16° 06' 59" W, 501.77' to a set iron pin;
2. N 73° 53' 01" E, 460.00' to a set iron pin;
S 16° 06' 59" E, 501.77' to the point and place of beginning.
CONTAINING 5.2988-acres, more or less.
(c) Subject to certain matters.--The conveyance shall be
made under and subject to all lawful and enforceable easements,
servitudes and rights of others, including, but not confined to,
streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water,
electric, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and
subject to any lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies
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vested in third persons appearing of record, for any portion of
the land or improvements erected thereon.
(d) Prohibited use.--Any conveyance authorized under this
section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which
shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of
the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as
defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any
other similar type of facility authorized under State law. The
condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be
binding upon the grantee, its successors and assigns. Should the
grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the
property authorized to be conveyed in this section to be used in
violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert
to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Covenants, conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary
of General Services may include in the deed of conveyance any
covenants, conditions or restrictions on the property as
determined to be in the best interests of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
(f) Restrictive covenants.--Any conveyance authorized under
this section shall be made under and subject to the condition
that Penn Township Municipal Authority, its successors and
assigns, shall use the property solely for a municipal well
site. Should Penn Township Municipal Authority, its successors
or assigns use the property for any other purpose, the property,
shall, at the Department of General Service's election, revert
and revest to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(g) Easements.--The Department of General Services is hereby
authorized, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
grant any easements benefiting the property to be conveyed, or
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to retain any easements from the property to be conveyed, as the
Secretary of General Services shall determine to be necessary or
appropriate.
(h) Deed.--The conveyance shall be made by a special
warranty deed