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Executive Order 2021-20 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 87)

Executive Order requiring face coverings indoors and vaccination or testing of health care workers, school personnel, higher education and State congregate facility staff

Governor JB Pritzker · Illinois (State)

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Jurisdiction
Illinois
Level
State
Authority
Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, 20 ILCS 3305/7; gubernatorial disaster proclamations
Issued
2021-08-26 Aug. 26, 2021
Effective
2021-08-30 (face coverings); health care worker provisions as stated (read as 2021-08-30)
End
Amended by EO 2021-22 (Sept. 3, 2021); re-issued monthly thereafter (read as 2021-09-03)
In force
Aug. 30, 2021 to Sept. 3, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
Addressees
  • all individuals (indoor masks)
  • Health Care Facilities and Health Care Workers
Functions reached
  • IC
  • HR
  • WF
  • RS
  • HC (agencies within the facility definition)
  • DN masks indoors
Collection
Home Care, Nursing and Senior Living SEC-04

Operative words

Section 1: Face covering requirements for individuals. Beginning on Monday, August 30, 2021, all individuals in Illinois who are age two or over and able to medically tolerate a face covering... shall be required to cover their nose and mouth with a face covering when in an indoor public place... Section 2: Vaccination Requirements for Health Care Workers... 'Health Care Facility' means any institution, building, or agency, or portion of an institution, building or agency, whether public or private (for-profit or nonprofit), that is used, operated or designed to provide health services, medical treatment or nursing, or rehabilitative or preventive care to any person or persons. This includes, but is not limited to,... hospices... long-term care facilities (including skilled and intermediate long-term care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act or the MC/DD Act), Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Facilities, assisted living facilities, supportive living facilities, medical assistance facilities, mental health centers, outpatient facilities, public health centers, rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities, and adult day care centers... c. Health Care Facilities shall exclude Health Care Workers who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from the premises unless they comply with the testing requirements...

Enforcement

IDPH; Illinois Department of Public Health Act; licensing

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