The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative power; amends Utah Code section 26-6-27 and enacts section 26-6-32
- Issued
- 2020-07-07 July 7, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-07
- End
- section 26-6-32 version superseded July 1, 2021 (amendment; the Legislature's versioned PDF header 'Effective 7/7/2020 Superseded 7/1/2021') (read as 2021-07-01)
- In force
- July 7, 2020 to July 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersVaccination or testingStanding duty
- Addressees
- specified businesses (care facilities); individuals present at care facilities (residents, staff); the Department and local health departments as requesting authorities
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Utah DUT-UT
Operative words
At the request of the department or a local health department, an individual who meets the criteria established by the department under Subsection (2)(b) shall submit to testing for COVID-19. (b) The department: (i) shall establish protocols to identify and test individuals who are present at a care facility and are at high risk for contracting COVID-19
Penalty
Utah Code section 26-23-6 (Ex. DUT-UT-003) for violation of the chapter or a lawful order
What it required
Individuals present at care facilities (the facilities described in section 26-6-6(2) to (6)) who met the Department's criteria 'shall submit to testing for COVID-19' at the Department's or a local health department's request; the Department had to establish testing protocols and could 'establish who is responsible for the costs of the testing'; a care facility could discharge a resident whose refusal endangered others under the Department's criteria.
Retrieval noteEnrolled copy from the Legislature's site; the bill page records the Governor's signature on July 7, 2020, and the versioned code PDF C26-6-S32_2020070720200707.pdf records 'Effective 7/7/2020 Superseded 7/1/2021.' A sector duty (long-term care and other care facilities) enacted by statute during the claim period; the UDOH health-care protocols order is Ex. UT-014.