The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Virginia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Va. Const. art. V, sec. 7; Va. Code 44-146.17
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-24 (schools: remainder of the 2019-20 school year) (read as 2020-03-24)
- End
- Amended by EO 55 (Mar. 30, 2020) and EO 61 (May 8, 2020); school closure ran to the end of the 2019-20 year (read as 2020-03-30)
- In force
- Mar. 24, 2020 to Mar. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capSchools and child care
- Addressees
- all K-12 schools, public and private
- child care facilities (permitted to remain open)
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Education and Child Care SEC-15
Operative words
On March 13, 2020, I ordered all K-12 schools in the Commonwealth closed for [two weeks]... 2. Cessation of all in-person instruction at K-12 schools, public and private, for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. Facilities providing child care services [may remain open and are urged to serve the children of essential personnel]...
Enforcement
Va. Code 44-146.17 (Class 1 misdemeanor)
Notes
Private schools closed by name for the remainder of the year on March 23, 2020, the earliest full-year closure with Kansas; EO 55 (Mar. 30, 2020) ordered institutions of higher education to cease in-person classes.
Retrieval noteBracketed text paraphrases; quote paragraph 2 from the exhibit.