§ 129C.002.Certain Provisions Unenforceable

One long sentence with a carefully placed limit at the end.

Any provision of a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement, or such a provision of an employment agreement, settlement agreement, or any other agreement, is void and unenforceable as against the public policy of this state to the extent it prohibits a person, including a party, from disclosing an act of sexual abuse or facts related to an act of sexual abuse to any other person.

"To the extent" is the operative qualifier. The clause is not struck down entirely — only the part reaching sexual abuse falls away, and the rest of the agreement stands.

The categories of agreement are exhaustive in listing and open in effect: employment agreements, settlement agreements, and any other agreement. There is no way to draft around it by choosing a different instrument.

"Including a party" forecloses a narrow reading. The person freed to speak is the person who signed — the survivor bound by their own settlement — not merely third parties incidentally covered.

"Facts related to" reaches beyond the act itself, so a clause cannot achieve indirectly what it cannot do directly by barring discussion of the circumstances, the response, or the aftermath.

The closing sentence preserves what makes settlements possible: nothing prevents agreeing to keep confidential any other provision of a settlement, including the amount or payment terms.

That is the balance the chapter strikes. A survivor may always describe what happened; the money can stay private.