The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9; section 4-166(16) displaced
- Issued
- 2020-09-04 Sept. 4, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-09-04
- End
- Section 1 extended by EO 11 (to May 20, 2021), EO 12B s.4 (to July 20, 2021), EO 13 (to Sept. 30, 2021) and EO 14A (to Feb. 15, 2022); s.2 to Sept. 26, 2020 (then EO 9K s.7) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Sept. 4, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- public schools and boards of education
- child care settings and camps
- liquor permittees
- Functions reached
- IN in-person instruction (hybrid/remote models, cohorts, masks)
- EC child care (masks, group rules)
- WF parents
- BA alcohol only with food (s.2)
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
the Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Early Childhood, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, may issue binding guidance, rules, or orders for operation of schools or childcare settings that each deems necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic or its effects... Such rules or binding guidance may include rules related to the required use of masks or face-coverings in school buildings and child care settings... The operative school reopening document issued by the State Department of Education on June 29, 2020, entitled Adapt, Advance, Achieve: Connecticut's Plan to Learn and Grow Together, and related addendums, as amended from time to time, are deemed such binding guidance, rules or orders as authorized by this order.
Enforcement
Binding on boards of education and licensed child care; SDE and OEC enforcement; Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22
Notes
The instrument that gave force of law to the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school operating rules; extended to Feb. 15, 2022.