The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ky. Const. secs. 29, 88; KRS ch. 13A
- Issued
- 2021-09-09 Sept. 9, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-09-09 (veto overridden Sept. 9, 2021; delivered to the Secretary of State Sept. 9, 2021; emergency clause) (read as 2021-09-09)
- End
- Provisions run to Jan. 15, 2022 and through the 2021-22 school year (read as 2022-01-15)
- In force
- Sept. 9, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- school districts and superintendents
- child-care providers
- Department for Public Health
- Kentucky Board of Education
- CHFS
- Functions reached
- IN instruction
- RL remote instruction days
- EC child care
- WF (quarantine and masking policies set locally)
- CB
- Collection
- Kentucky KY
Operative words
Section 1.... (2) Contrary provisions of any section of the Kentucky Revised Statutes notwithstanding, the administrative regulation referenced in subsection (1) of this section [902 KAR 2:213E] shall be null, void, and unenforceable as of the effective date of this Act.... Section 2.... 702 KAR 1:195E, Face Coverings in School Facilities... shall be null, void, and unenforceable as of the effective date of this Act.... Each school district shall submit its COVID-19 school [plan for masking, contact tracing, and quarantining]... Section 4. (1) Within 14 days of the effective date of this Act, the Department for Public Health shall develop a COVID-19 'test to stay' model school plan... [superintendents may assign a] school, grade, classroom, or student group level to remote instruction due to significant absences... no longer than is [necessary; not] more than 20 days
Enforcement
Notes
From Sept. 10, 2021 masking, quarantine and test-to-stay rules in Kentucky schools were district-by-district instruments (local boards), not State orders; the statute itself compels each district to adopt and submit a COVID-19 plan
Retrieval noteBracketed words are paraphrase of text read in the bill's line-numbered version; quote from the Acts PDF before use.