The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Head Start Act, 42 U.S.C. 9801 et seq.; 45 C.F.R. part 1302 (Head Start Program Performance Standards)
- Issued
- 2021-11-30 Nov. 30, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-11-30 (masking); staff, contractors and volunteers fully vaccinated by Jan. 31, 2022 (read as 2021-11-30)
- End
- Enjoined in 24 States (Louisiana v. Becerra, W.D. La., Jan. 1, 2022) and Texas (N.D. Tex., Dec. 31, 2021); rescinded 2023 (read as 2022-01-01)
- In force
- Nov. 30, 2021 to Jan. 1, 2022
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- Head Start and Early Head Start grantees (many of them private nonprofit child care providers)
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Education and Child Care SEC-15
Operative words
This IFC requires... universal masking... [and that] all Head Start staff, certain contractors, and volunteers... have their second dose... or a single-dose [vaccine] by January 31, 2022.
Enforcement
Condition of Head Start grant (45 C.F.R. 1302.47 as amended)
Notes
POST-PERIOD. Stated precisely: issued Nov. 30, 2021, after the last claimable quarter; it is the federal government's own finding that child care settings required masking and staff vaccination, and it is never pleaded as an order in force in 2021 Q3.
Retrieval noteInjunction history from the public dockets.