The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California (all Adult and Senior Care licensees: adult residential facilities incl. those serving people with developmental disabilities, RCFEs, adult day programs, social rehabilitation facilities) · California
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- State Public Health Officer Order of September 28, 2021 (Adult Care Facilities and Direct Care Worker Vaccine Requirement) (Ex. SEC-04-037), issued under Health & Safety Code ss. 120125, 120140, 131080, 120130(c), 120135, 120145, 120175, 120195
- Issued
- 2021-09-28 Sept. 28, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-09-28; 'all workers... [must have] the second dose of a two-dose regimen by November 30, 2021' (read as 2021-09-28)
- End
- Amended by PIN 21-53-ASC (booster requirement, Dec. 2021, post-period) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Sept. 28, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- All Adult and Senior Care licensees and their workers
- Functions reached
- DD adult residential facilities and group homes (worker vaccination)
- AD adult day programs (cross-referenced to PIN 21-33-ASC)
- HR (hiring and retention conditioned on vaccination or exemption)
- WF
- PY licensing conditions
- Collection
- Social Assistance and Community Services SEC-24
Operative words
PIN 21-44-ASC notifies all Adult and Senior Care (ASC) licensees of the COVID-19 [vaccination requirement in the State Public] Health Officer Order of September 28, 2021.... Pursuant to the State Public Health Officer Order of September 28, 2021, all workers [in adult and senior care facilities must have their first dose of a one-dose regimen or their] second dose of a two-dose regimen by November 30, 2021.... Workers may be exempt from the vaccination requirements only upon providing [a declination form based on religious beliefs or qualifying medical reasons]... the unvaccinated exempt worker must meet the following requirements... Testing must occur once weekly for such workers.
Enforcement
Licensing; the SPHO order's health-code penalties
Notes
Issued on the third-to-last day of the quarter: the licensing agency's transmission of the State Public Health Officer's September 28, 2021 vaccine mandate for adult care facility workers, with weekly testing for exempt workers. It cross-references the adult day program testing rules of PIN 21-33-ASC (Ex. SEC-24-004).
Retrieval noteTool JSON: {"method":"live-pdf","bytes":369825}. Renamed with the issue date; sha256 unchanged. The SPHO order itself is Ex. SEC-04-037.