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Ex. SEC-15-049 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 2020-16

Expanding child care access during the COVID-19 emergency (disaster relief child care centers)

Governor Gretchen Whitmer · Michigan (State)

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Jurisdiction
Michigan
Level
State
Authority
MCL 30.401-.421; MCL 10.31-.33; Child Care Organizations Act, 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111 et seq. (suspended in part)
Issued
2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
Effective
Immediately through April 15, 2020 (extended by EO 2020-51 and successors) (read as 2020-04-15)
End
Successor orders through the 2020 emergency (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Apr. 15, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Schools and child careOther
Addressees
  • child care organizations
  • employers
  • school districts and nonpublic schools
  • LARA
Functions reached
  • EC
  • WF
  • HR
  • OP
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

2. Effective immediately and continuing through April 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm, strict compliance with subsection (2) of section 5m of the Child Care Organizations Act... is suspended, as follows: (a) An employer may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center without a license from LARA. (b) A school district or a nonpublic school may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center in a school building without a license from LARA. 3. LARA must issue rules and/or orders governing disaster relief child care centers.... 4.... disaster relief child care centers may operate in any school facilities operated by a school district or nonpublic school that are closed...

Enforcement

MCL 10.33; MCL 30.405(3)

Notes

The State's answer to the workforce problem its own school closure created: unlicensed disaster relief child care for the children of essential workers, under LARA emergency rules, in closed school buildings.

Retrieval note

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