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Ex. SEC-15-090TEA 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 updatesTexas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath)TexasSector regulatorJuly 7, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-029Executive Order GA-36Relating to the prohibition of governmental entities and officials from mandating face coverings or restricting activities in response to…Governor Greg AbbottTexasStateMay 18, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-031H.B. 1007, Face Covering Requirements (2021 First Special Session)Face Covering RequirementsUtah Legislature, 2021 First Special Session; Governor Spencer Cox (signed)UtahStateMay 19, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-030House File 847 (2021), Division on facial covering policies (counties, cities and schools), new Iowa Code section 280.31An Act relating to education, including... facial covering policiesIowa General Assembly (89th G.A.); Governor Kim Reynolds (signed)IowaStateMay 20, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-046Senate Bill 658 (2021), enrolledAn Act relating to schools; prohibiting... vaccination requirements, vaccine passports and mask mandates for unvaccinated students absent a…Oklahoma Legislature (58th Leg.); Governor Kevin Stitt (signed)OklahomaStateMay 28, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-089Proviso 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 CarolinaStateJune 22, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-024COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School Year (originally published July 12, 2021)COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School YearCalifornia Department of Public HealthCaliforniaSector regulatorJuly 12, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-045Act 1002 of 2021 (SB 590)An Act to Prohibit the Mandatory Use of Face Masks, Face Shields, or Other Face CoveringsArkansas General Assembly (93rd G.A.); Governor Asa Hutchinson (signed)ArkansasStateApr. 28, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-047Executive Order GA-38Relating to the continued response to the COVID-19 disaster (consolidation of GA-34, GA-35, GA-36; no governmental mask mandates; no vaccine…Governor Greg AbbottTexasStateJuly 29, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-040Executive Order 21-175Ensuring Parents' Freedom to Choose - Masks in SchoolsGovernor Ron DeSantisFloridaStateJuly 30, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-085Proclamation 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 InsleeWashingtonStateJuly 30, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-086OAR 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 DivisionOregonSector regulatorAug. 2, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-026Executive 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 2021-18Governor JB PritzkerIllinoisStateAug. 4, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-074Proclamation Number 137 JBE 2021COVID-19 Public Health Emergency - Mitigation Measures - Statewide Mask MandateGovernor John Bel EdwardsLouisianaStateAug. 2, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-083Emergency 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 048Governor Steve SisolakNevadaStateAug. 4, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-033Executive Order No. 13ARevised Order for Masks and Face Coverings, Nursing Home Staff Vaccination (repealing EO 12A; universal masking in schools continued through…Governor Ned LamontConnecticutStateAug. 5, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-044Emergency Rule 64DER21-12, Protocols for Controlling COVID-19 in School SettingsProtocols for Controlling COVID-19 in School SettingsFlorida Department of Health (State Surgeon General)FloridaSector regulatorAug. 6, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolationPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-015Executive Order No. 251 (2021)Mandatory face masks in the indoor premises of all public, private and parochial preschool programs and elementary and secondary schools for…Governor Philip D. MurphyNew JerseyStateAug. 6, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child carePrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-080Executive Order 2021-585State of Emergency: face coverings in all public and private preschool, Head Start and K-12 schools (including school buses) and in all…Governor Andy BeshearKentuckyStateAug. 10, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child carePrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-050Executive Order No. 84An Order Regarding Mask Requirements in Schools (parental opt-out)Governor Bill LeeTennesseeStateAug. 16, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-067Emergency Secretary's Order amending 16 Del. Admin. Code 4202 (Control of Communicable and Other Disease Conditions), adding section 7.7 (COVID-19 Mitigation and Prevention; 7.7.1 Schools) and section 12 (severability)Emergency Order: 16 Del. Admin. Code 4202, section 7.7 (universal indoor masking in K-12 schools)Secretary, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (Molly Magarik), with the Division of Public HealthDelawareSector regulatorAug. 13, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child carePrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-068Emergency 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 campsDelaware Department of Education, Office of Child Care LicensingDelawareSector regulatorAug. 13, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-035Executive Order 21-87Requiring Masks in SchoolsGovernor Daniel J. McKeeRhode IslandStateAug. 19, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child carePrimary source read
Ex. SEC-15-081DESE 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, 2021MassachusettsSector regulatorAug. 25, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-027Executive Order 2021-22 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 87)Executive Order 2021-22: face coverings; vaccination and testing requirements for health care workers, school personnel and higher education…Governor JB PritzkerIllinoisStateSept. 3, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingPrimary source read