{"id":"IL-040","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Illinois","state":"IL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor JB Pritzker","authority":"Illinois Constitution; 20 ILCS 3305/7(1), 7(2), 7(3), 7(8), 7(12), 7(19)","instrument":"Executive Order 2021-18 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 85)","title":"School, day care and long-term care mitigation measures (universal indoor face coverings regardless of vaccination status)","dateIssued":"2021-08-04","effective":"2021-08-04 (effective immediately)","end":"Re-issued in its entirety (as amended by EO 2021-19) through Oct. 16, 2021 (EO 2021-23) and beyond","startDate":"2021-08-04","endDate":"2021-10-16","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","MASK","HC","EMP"],"addressees":["all public and nonpublic pre-K-12 schools","all day care facilities","all nursing homes and long-term care facilities","students, children, staff and visitors"],"clause":"Section 1: School Mitigation Measures. All public and nonpublic schools in Illinois serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students must follow the joint guidance issued by ISBE and IDPH and take proactive measures to ensure the safety of students, staff, and visitors, including, but not limited to: Requiring the indoor use of face coverings by students, staff, and visitors who are over age two and able to medically tolerate a face covering, regardless of vaccination status, consistent with CDC guidance; and, Implementing other layered prevention strategies (such as physical distancing, screening testing, ventilation, handwashing and respiratory etiquette, advising individuals to stay home when sick and get tested, contact tracing in combination with appropriate quarantine and isolation, and cleaning and disinfection)... Section 2: Day Care Mitigation Measures. All day care facilities in Illinois must follow the joint guidance issued by DCFS and IDPH and take proactive measures... including... Requiring the indoor use of face coverings by children, staff, and visitors who are over age two and able to medically tolerate a face covering, regardless of vaccination status... Section 3: Long-Term Care Mitigation Measures. All nursing homes and long-term care facilities in Illinois must continue to follow the guidance issued by the CDC and IDPH that requires the use of face coverings in congregate facilities for those over the age of two and able to medically tolerate a face covering, regardless of vaccination status.","enforcement":"20 ILCS 3305/7 and 19; ISBE and IDPH joint guidance and DCFS/IDPH joint guidance made binding; ISBE placed non-compliant schools on probation (not verified in this session)","functions":["IN in-person instruction","EC child care","RS residential care","WF workforce (children\u0027s schooling; quarantine and isolation strategies)","IC infection control (long-term care)"],"notes":"The first new Illinois mandate of the third quarter of 2021, three weeks before the universal indoor mandate; it governs the entire 2021-22 school year\u0027s opening.","sourceUrl":"https://www.illinois.gov/government/executive-orders/executive-order.executive-order-number-18.2021.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":57839,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IL","url":"/library/IL-040","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IL-040","citation":"Governor JB Pritzker, Executive Order 2021-18 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 85) (Aug. 4, 2021) (Ex. IL-040)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-032","SEC-16-GM-014","SEC-17-GM-060","IL-039","IL-041","IL-042","IL-043","IL-047","IL-071","IL-044","IL-045","IL-046"]}