{"id":"SEC-01-140","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"01","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health","authority":"35 Pa.C.S. 7301; 35 P.S. 521.5","instrument":"Orders of Mar. 19, 2020 closing businesses that are not life-sustaining, with the Industry Operation Guidance list (\u0027Home Health Care Services - Yes - Elective procedures prohibited\u0027; hospitals - Yes - elective procedures prohibited); DOH Guidance on Ambulatory Surgical Facilities\u0027 Responses to COVID-19 (Mar. 20, 2020)","title":"Pennsylvania life-sustaining business orders and list (elective procedures prohibited); DOH ASF guidance","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-19 8:00 p.m. (enforcement Mar. 23)","end":"2020-04-27 (DOH guidance permitting resumption of elective procedures)","startDate":"2020-03-19","endDate":"2020-04-27","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CLOSE","HC"],"addressees":["all businesses; hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities"],"clause":"Ambulatory surgical facilities may not perform any elective surgeries or procedures unless the surgery or procedure would preserve organ function or avoid further harms from an underlying condition or disease (ACS quotation of the Mar. 20, 2020 DOH guidance); list entry: \u0027Elective procedures prohibited\u0027.","enforcement":"35 P.S. 521.20; Liquor Code and licensure enforcement","functions":["SX","OC","OF"],"notes":"Cited here for the sector clause.","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200319-Life-Sustaining-Business.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200321000554/https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200319-Life-Sustaining-Business.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":65540,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-01","url":"/library/SEC-01-140","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-01-140","citation":"Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health, Orders of Mar. 19, 2020 closing businesses that are not life-sustaining, with the Industry Operation Guidance list (\u0027Home Health Care Services - Yes - Elective procedures prohibited\u0027; hospitals - Yes - elective procedures prohibited); DOH Guidance on Ambulatory Surgical Facilities\u0027 Responses to COVID-19 (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-01-140)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["SEC-18-020"]}