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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. SEC-15-055	Executive Order 202.4 (Mar. 16, 2020; all schools closed from Mar. 18 for two weeks), extended by EO 202.11 (Mar. 27), 202.18 (Apr. 16) and the May 1, 2020 direction closing schools for the remainder of the yearExecutive Order 202.4	Governor Andrew M. Cuomo	New YorkState	Mar. 16, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-093	Executive Order 1460 (Mar. 19, 2020: all public schools closed through Apr. 17, 2020) and Executive Order 1476 (recited as Apr. 22, 2020: all public school buildings closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year)Mississippi school closure orders of 2020 (EO 1460; EO 1476)	Governor Tate Reeves	MississippiState	Mar. 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-042	Proclamation 20-12 (Higher Education) and its amendments 20-12.1 through 20-12.5 (including 20-12.4 of July 12, 2021)COVID-19 Higher Education	Governor Jay Inslee	WashingtonState	Mar. 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Business closureSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-061	Emergency Order #1 pursuant to Executive Order 2020-04 (temporary remote instruction and support for public K-12 schools)Emergency Order #1	Governor Christopher T. Sununu	New HampshireState	Mar. 15, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-041	Proclamation 20-09 (Statewide K-12 School Closures), as amended by 20-09.1 (Apr. 6, 2020; remainder of the school year)Coronavirus Schools Closure	Governor Jay Inslee	WashingtonState	Mar. 13, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-060	Executive Order No. 20-09Closure of K-12 schools through April 28, 2020; restrictions on in-person instruction at institutions of higher education	Governor Kate Brown	OregonState	Mar. 17, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-001	School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year (State-by-State closure chronology)School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year	Ballotpedia (Lucy Burns Institute)	United States (fifty States)Other	June 30, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-052	Executive Order 2020-142 (MI Safe Schools: Michigan's 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap)Provision of preK-12 education for the 2020-2021 school year	Governor Gretchen Whitmer	MichiganState	June 30, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q4	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-090	TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation)TEA SY 2020-21 Public Health Planning Guidance and 2021-22 updates	Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath)	TexasSector regulator	July 7, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-092	The July 17-20, 2020 fall-opening orders of Kansas, Utah and Iowa (grouped record)Kansas EO 20-59; Utah UDOH K-12 face-covering order; Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020	Governor Laura Kelly (KS EO 20-59, July 20, 2020: face coverings in schools); Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of July 20, 2020: face coverings in all public and private K-12 schools); Governor Kim Reynolds (Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020: at least half of instruction in person)	Kansas; Utah; IowaState	July 20, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-021	Emergency Executive Order 20-82 (Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 school year)Implementing a Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 School Year	Governor Tim Walz	MinnesotaState	July 30, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-078	MDHHS Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order of November 15, 2020 (in-person instruction at high schools and colleges suspended Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2020; extended Dec. 7 to Dec. 20, 2020)Gatherings and Face Mask Order (Nov. 15, 2020)	Director Robert Gordon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services	MichiganSector regulator	Nov. 15, 2020	2020 Q4	Business closureGathering capSchools and child careEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-079	Executive Order 2020-969 (all public and private K-12 schools to cease in-person instruction Nov. 23, 2020; elementary schools may reopen Dec. 7 in non-red counties; middle and high schools remote through Jan. 4, 2021)Executive Order 2020-969	Governor Andy Beshear	KentuckyState	Nov. 18, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q1	Business closureSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-002	School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year (State reopening regimes, mid-year closures, return orders, monthly status)School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year	Ballotpedia	United States (fifty States)Other	June 30, 2021	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-089	Proviso 1.108 (no school district may use appropriated funds to require students or staff to wear face masks); upheld by the South Carolina Supreme Court Sept. 2, 2021 (City of Columbia); enforcement enjoined Sept. 28, 2021 (Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster)Proviso 1.108 (school mask-mandate funding ban)	South Carolina General Assembly (2021-22 Appropriations Act, H. 4100, Proviso 1.108); U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (Lewis, J.)	South CarolinaState	June 22, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-040	Executive Order 21-175Ensuring Parents' Freedom to Choose - Masks in Schools	Governor Ron DeSantis	FloridaState	July 30, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-085	Proclamation 20-9.4 (July 30, 2021): K-12 schools prohibited from operating outside the Department of Health's K-12 requirements (universal indoor masking, distancing, ventilation, testing and reporting) for 2021-22Proclamation 20-9.4 (K-12 Schools, 2021-22)	Governor Jay Inslee	WashingtonState	July 30, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-086	OAR 333-019-1015 (Aug. 2, 2021; masking requirements for K-12 schools, public and private) and OAR 333-019-1030 (Aug. 25, 2021; COVID-19 vaccination requirement for teachers and school staff by Oct. 18, 2021)OHA temporary rules: K-12 masking (333-019-1015) and school staff vaccination (333-019-1030)	Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division	OregonSector regulator	Aug. 2, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testing	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-026	Executive Order 2021-18 (masks in all public and nonpublic P-12 schools), followed by EO 2021-20 (Aug. 26, 2021; statewide indoor masks; school and higher-education vaccination-or-testing)Executive Order 2021-18	Governor JB Pritzker	IllinoisState	Aug. 4, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-083	Emergency Directive 048 (Aug. 4, 2021; face coverings for staff and students in public, private and charter schools in counties over 100,000 population) as amended the same dayEmergency Directive 048	Governor Steve Sisolak	NevadaState	Aug. 4, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-068	Emergency Orders adding mask requirements to 14 Del. Admin. Code 933 (Early Care and Education and School-Age Centers), 934 (Family and Large Family Child Care Homes), 938 (Youth Camps, new section 5.3), 815 and 105 (published 25 Del. Reg. 227-244, Sept. 1, 2021)OCCL emergency mask orders for child care and youth camps	Delaware Department of Education, Office of Child Care Licensing	DelawareSector regulator	Aug. 13, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-081	DESE mask requirement for all public K-12 students, staff and visitors for 2021-22 (issued Aug. 25, 2021; extended Sept. 27, Oct. 26, 2021 and Jan. 10, 2022)DESE universal mask requirement (Aug. 25, 2021)	Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey C. Riley, under authority voted by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Aug. 24, 2021	MassachusettsSector regulator	Aug. 25, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-087	Emergency regulations: 10 NYCRR 2.60 (Aug. 27, 2021; universal masking in all public and private P-12 schools) and 10 NYCRR 2.62 (Sept. 2, 2021; weekly testing of unvaccinated school personnel)NYSDOH emergency regulations 2.60 and 2.62	New York State Department of Health (Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D., on direction of Governor Kathy Hochul)	New YorkSector regulator	Aug. 27, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testing	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-003	School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year (school mask requirements and bans, staff and student vaccine requirements, litigation)School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year	Ballotpedia	United States (fifty States)Other	Aug. 1, 2022	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Executive Order 202.4 (Mar. 16, 2020; all schools closed from Mar. 18 for two weeks), extended by EO 202.11 (Mar. 27), 202.18 (Apr. 16) and the May 1, 2020 direction closing schools for the remainder of the year (Ex. SEC-15-055)
Governor Tate Reeves, Executive Order 1460 (Mar. 19, 2020: all public schools closed through Apr. 17, 2020) and Executive Order 1476 (recited as Apr. 22, 2020: all public school buildings closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year) (Ex. SEC-15-093)
Governor Jay Inslee, Proclamation 20-12 (Higher Education) and its amendments 20-12.1 through 20-12.5 (including 20-12.4 of July 12, 2021) (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-042)
Governor Christopher T. Sununu, Emergency Order #1 pursuant to Executive Order 2020-04 (temporary remote instruction and support for public K-12 schools) (Mar. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-061)
Governor Jay Inslee, Proclamation 20-09 (Statewide K-12 School Closures), as amended by 20-09.1 (Apr. 6, 2020; remainder of the school year) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-041)
Governor Kate Brown, Executive Order No. 20-09 (Mar. 17, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-060)
Ballotpedia (Lucy Burns Institute), School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year (State-by-State closure chronology) (June 30, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-001)
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-142 (MI Safe Schools: Michigan's 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap) (June 30, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-052)
Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath), TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation) (Ex. SEC-15-090)
Governor Laura Kelly (KS EO 20-59, July 20, 2020: face coverings in schools); Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of July 20, 2020: face coverings in all public and private K-12 schools); Governor Kim Reynolds (Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020: at least half of instruction in person), The July 17-20, 2020 fall-opening orders of Kansas, Utah and Iowa (grouped record) (July 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-092)
Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-82 (Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 school year) (July 30, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-021)
Director Robert Gordon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, MDHHS Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order of November 15, 2020 (in-person instruction at high schools and colleges suspended Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2020; extended Dec. 7 to Dec. 20, 2020) (Nov. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-078)
Governor Andy Beshear, Executive Order 2020-969 (all public and private K-12 schools to cease in-person instruction Nov. 23, 2020; elementary schools may reopen Dec. 7 in non-red counties; middle and high schools remote through Jan. 4, 2021) (Nov. 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-079)
Ballotpedia, School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year (State reopening regimes, mid-year closures, return orders, monthly status) (June 30, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-002)
South Carolina General Assembly (2021-22 Appropriations Act, H. 4100, Proviso 1.108); U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (Lewis, J.), Proviso 1.108 (no school district may use appropriated funds to require students or staff to wear face masks); upheld by the South Carolina Supreme Court Sept. 2, 2021 (City of Columbia); enforcement enjoined Sept. 28, 2021 (Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster) (June 22, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-089)
Governor Ron DeSantis, Executive Order 21-175 (July 30, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-040)
Governor Jay Inslee, Proclamation 20-9.4 (July 30, 2021): K-12 schools prohibited from operating outside the Department of Health's K-12 requirements (universal indoor masking, distancing, ventilation, testing and reporting) for 2021-22 (Ex. SEC-15-085)
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division, OAR 333-019-1015 (Aug. 2, 2021; masking requirements for K-12 schools, public and private) and OAR 333-019-1030 (Aug. 25, 2021; COVID-19 vaccination requirement for teachers and school staff by Oct. 18, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-086)
Governor JB Pritzker, Executive Order 2021-18 (masks in all public and nonpublic P-12 schools), followed by EO 2021-20 (Aug. 26, 2021; statewide indoor masks; school and higher-education vaccination-or-testing) (Aug. 4, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-026)
Governor Steve Sisolak, Emergency Directive 048 (Aug. 4, 2021; face coverings for staff and students in public, private and charter schools in counties over 100,000 population) as amended the same day (Ex. SEC-15-083)
Delaware Department of Education, Office of Child Care Licensing, Emergency Orders adding mask requirements to 14 Del. Admin. Code 933 (Early Care and Education and School-Age Centers), 934 (Family and Large Family Child Care Homes), 938 (Youth Camps, new section 5.3), 815 and 105 (published 25 Del. Reg. 227-244, Sept. 1, 2021) (Aug. 13, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-068)
Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey C. Riley, under authority voted by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Aug. 24, 2021, DESE mask requirement for all public K-12 students, staff and visitors for 2021-22 (issued Aug. 25, 2021; extended Sept. 27, Oct. 26, 2021 and Jan. 10, 2022) (Ex. SEC-15-081)
New York State Department of Health (Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D., on direction of Governor Kathy Hochul), Emergency regulations: 10 NYCRR 2.60 (Aug. 27, 2021; universal masking in all public and private P-12 schools) and 10 NYCRR 2.62 (Sept. 2, 2021; weekly testing of unvaccinated school personnel) (Ex. SEC-15-087)
Ballotpedia, School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year (school mask requirements and bans, staff and student vaccine requirements, litigation) (Aug. 1, 2022) (Ex. SEC-15-003)

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