The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Florida
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Fla. Stat. 381.00316 (as invoked by EO 21-175); 120.54(4) (emergency rulemaking)
- Issued
- 2021-08-06 Aug. 6, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-06
- End
- Superseded by 64DER21-15 (Sept. 22, 2021; quarantine of asymptomatic exposed students at parents' option) (read as 2021-09-22)
- In force
- Aug. 6, 2021 to Sept. 22, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- district school boards and public schools (K-12)
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Education and Child Care SEC-15
Operative words
Rule: 64DER21-12... Rule Title: Protocols for Controlling COVID-19 in School Settings... [Validity challenges filed by the] SCHOOL BOARD OF LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND ROCKY HANNA, AS SUPERINTENDENT... vs. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; Case No.: 21-2721RE (9/13/2021); SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, vs. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; Case No.: 21-2697RE (9/8/2021); THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA... (9/8/2021).
Enforcement
Fla. Stat. 1008.32 (State Board of Education enforcement); withholding of funds
Notes
The rule required that any district mask protocol allow a parent to opt the student out and prescribed symptom and exposure protocols; the flrules.org page lists the rule's history and the school boards' rule challenges of September 2021.
Retrieval noteExhibit is the Florida Administrative Register's rule page (history, challenges and links to the rule text), not the rule's PDF.