{"id":"DE-016","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Delaware","state":"DE","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor John C. Carney","authority":"20 Del. C. ch. 31","instrument":"Twelfth Modification of the Declaration of a State of Emergency","title":"Twelfth Modification of the Declaration of a State of Emergency (activation of lapsed-license volunteer health workers under crisis standards of care; State disability program; regulatory comment periods)","dateIssued":"2020-04-23","effective":"2020-04-23 4:15 p.m. E.D.T.","end":"Carried into the Omnibus (DE-031 § L) and the Twenty-Ninth Modification (DE-038 § H.10-15); struck July 13, 2021","startDate":"2020-04-23","endDate":"2021-07-13","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["hospitals","lapsed licensees","State agencies"],"clause":"Recital at 4: \u0027WHEREAS, the suspension of elective surgeries and non-emergency medical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic may preclude state employees on short term disability leave from obtaining the healthcare services needed to return to work.\u0027 § C.2: suspends 29 Del. C. § 5253(c)(5) for State employees \u0027who, as a result of health care providers having suspended performing non-emergency or elective services during the COVID-19 pandemic,\u0027 cannot obtain care. Recited in the Omnibus as allowing \u0027the Public Health Authority to activate more out-of-state health care workers\u0027 (DE-031 at 4).","enforcement":"20 Del. C. ch. 31","functions":["SX/PR elective procedures (the Governor\u0027s own recital that they were suspended)","HR volunteer activation of lapsed licensees"],"notes":"Primary evidence, in the Governor\u0027s own order, that elective surgeries and non-emergency medical procedures were suspended in Delaware in the spring of 2020; the suspending instrument itself is record DE-NR-2.","sourceUrl":"https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/Executive-Orders/Carney/public-health/Twelfth-Modification-to-State-of-Emergency-04232020.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":152153,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DE","url":"/library/DE-016","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DE-016","citation":"Governor John C. Carney, Twelfth Modification of the Declaration of a State of Emergency (Apr. 23, 2020) (Ex. DE-016)","stateName":"Delaware","related":["DE-031","DE-038","DE-017","DE-018","DE-015","DE-014","DE-019","DE-013","DE-020","DE-012","DE-021","DE-010"]}