The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Health and Safety Code secs. 120125, 120130(c), 120135, 120140, 120145, 120175, 120195, 131080
- Issued
- 2021-08-05 Aug. 5, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-05; full vaccination of covered workers by Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2021-08-05)
- End
- Amended Dec. 22, 2021 and later; rescinded 2023 (post-period) (read as 2021-12-22)
- In force
- Aug. 5, 2021 to Dec. 22, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- workers in acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, clinics, dialysis centers, hospice, ambulatory surgery centers and other listed facilities, including contractors and staffing-agency personnel
- Functions reached
- PL health care placements
- JS housekeeping contracts in facilities
- SG facility security contractors
- HR
- Collection
- Staffing and Support Services SEC-19
Operative words
[As issued Aug. 5, 2021 (terms verified from secondary sources; the saved page is the issuer's current text reflecting later amendments):] all workers who provide services or work in [covered] facilities... must have their first dose... by September 30, 2021 be fully vaccinated... 'Worker' includes all paid and unpaid individuals who work in indoor settings where care is provided to patients or patients have access, including... contractors
Enforcement
Health and Safety Code sec. 120275 et seq.; licensing enforcement
Notes
The California health-care segment's Q3 2021 mandate, read with the July 26, 2021 high-risk-settings order (vaccination verification or testing) and the OSHA ETS;
Retrieval noteThe issuer's page as rendered Sept. 26, 2026 carries the order as amended (Dec. 22, 2021 and 2022 amendments recited) and not the Aug. 5, 2021 text with the Sept. 30 deadline; the original terms are graded secondary until the Aug. 2021 capture is retrieved.