{"id":"ECO-B-075","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"B","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"Mich. Const. 1963 art. 5, sec. 1; MCL 30.401-.421; MCL 10.31-.33","instrument":"Executive Order No. 2020-16","title":"Expanding child care access during the COVID-19 emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-18","effective":"March 18, 2020","end":"April 15, 2020, 11:59 p.m. (extended by later orders)","startDate":"2020-03-18","endDate":"2020-04-15","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SCH","OTHER"],"addressees":["employers","school districts and nonpublic schools","Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA)"],"clause":"Recital: \u0027providers of health care, emergency medical services, law enforcement, and other essential services require child care services for their children, particularly when schools are closed. The general public needs expanded access to child care during this emergency as well.\u0027 \u00272.... (a) An employer may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center without a license from LARA. (b) A school district or a nonpublic school may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center in a school building without a license from LARA. 3. LARA must issue rules and/or orders governing disaster relief child care centers.\u0027","enforcement":"MCL 10.33; MCL 30.405(3)","functions":["WF (child care for essential workforce)","HR"],"notes":"The State\u0027s own finding that the closure orders removed child care from the essential workforce; employers were authorized to run emergency child care themselves.","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-16.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":251654,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"ECO-B","url":"/library/ECO-B-075","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ECO-B-075","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order No. 2020-16 (Mar. 18, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-075)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["ECO-B-073","ECO-B-074"]}