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Second quarter of 2020

Apr. 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020. Wages paid after March 12, 2020 are claimed in this quarter, so the orders of March 13 to 31, 2020 belong to its record. This page sets out what was in force on its 91 days: the count of instruments, the States with an order in force on the first and last day, the analysis of the quarter, the partial-suspension test applied to it, and every instrument the Library holds for it.

Orders in force

The quarter in numbers

4,976instruments in force in the quarterorders in the Library that carry 2020 Q2
51States with an order in force on Apr. 1, 2020State, county, city and court orders, of 51 jurisdictions
51States with an order in force on June 30, 2020State, county, city and court orders, of 51 jurisdictions
51States with a stay-at-home, closure, capacity, gathering or curfew order in force on Apr. 1, 2020State, county and city orders of those five types, court orders not counted: 51 by a State order, 0 by a county or city order alone. 51 on June 30, 2020 (50 by a State order).
599federal instruments in the quarter283 in force on the first day, 487 on the last

An order counts as in force from its effective date to its recorded end date; an order without a recorded end date is counted for 120 days after it took effect.

The map

Orders in force, State by State

Alabama: 13 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Alaska: 25 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Arizona: 30 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Arkansas: 9 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 California: 101 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Colorado: 30 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Connecticut: 22 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Delaware: 24 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Florida: 84 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Georgia: 42 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Hawaii: 26 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Idaho: 10 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Illinois: 37 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Indiana: 28 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Iowa: 16 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Kansas: 13 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Kentucky: 40 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Louisiana: 22 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Maine: 13 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Maryland: 57 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Massachusetts: 31 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Michigan: 43 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Minnesota: 35 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Mississippi: 16 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Missouri: 43 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Montana: 21 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Nebraska: 21 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Nevada: 24 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 New Hampshire: 16 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 New Jersey: 34 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 New Mexico: 13 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 New York: 54 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 North Carolina: 26 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 North Dakota: 20 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Ohio: 67 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Oklahoma: 21 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Oregon: 32 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Pennsylvania: 52 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Rhode Island: 17 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 South Carolina: 16 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 South Dakota: 25 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Tennessee: 27 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Texas: 86 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Utah: 25 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Vermont: 23 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Virginia: 19 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 West Virginia: 19 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Wisconsin: 27 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 Wyoming: 7 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 District of Columbia: 14 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020 District of Columbia: 14 orders in force on Apr. 1, 2020
51States with an order in force on Apr. 1, 2020
1,570 State and local orders in force

Each State is colored by the State, county, city and court orders in the Library in force there on the day shown. The federal layer, in force in every State on every day (283 instruments on Apr. 1, 2020), is not on the map. Hover for the count and the limitation types; click a State to open it.

In plain terms: this page establishes that from the middle of March through June 2020 every State, the District of Columbia and the federal government had orders in force that closed business premises, sent customers and workers home, shut every school, stopped elective medical and dental care, closed the borders and suspended the courts. If your business claimed the Employee Retention Credit for the second quarter of 2020, the statute asks whether orders like these limited your commerce, travel or group meetings and interrupted more than a nominal part of what you do. The record below names the orders by number and date, shows how each layer of government reached the ordinary functions of an employer, and then sets the sentence the IRS uses in its letters beside the instruments that were in force. Every exhibit link opens the instrument itself in the Library.

The conclusion for the quarter

During the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2020, together with the wages paid after March 12, 2020 that the Internal Revenue Service's (the "Service") own instructions assign to that quarter, orders from appropriate governmental authorities limiting commerce, travel and group meetings due to COVID-19 caused a temporary termination and then interruption of a more than nominal portion of the operations of employers in every industry throughout the United States. The orders were the stay-at-home, closure, gathering, school-closure, elective-procedure and telework orders of every State and the District; the county and city shelter orders of the largest metropolitan areas; and the federal leave, allocation, entry, border, sailing and court instruments. That is the law of the quarter under CARES Act § 2301(c)(2)(A)(ii)(I) (the "Suspension Clause"), and it is the record of the quarter.

The orders in force

The States on the quarter's first day

The quarter opened with the country closed. On April 1, 2020 every State and the District was under a declared emergency. By April 7, 2020 forty-two States and territories had ordered residents to stay at home by the count of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and forty-three governors had ordered the public home or non-essential premises closed by the Council of State Governments' count; on April 1 the eight jurisdictions without a categorical order (Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri (until April 6), Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming) had closed commerce by category, county or ordinance.2 Every school building in the nation was closed to students. Elective and non-urgent medical, surgical and dental procedures were prohibited or postponed by order in at least thirty-two States and the District.3 Every nursing home in the country was closed to visitors by directive of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.4 Traveler quarantines bound arrivals in at least twenty-four States and the District. The federal government had cancelled every routine visa appointment worldwide, closed the land borders to non-essential travel, suspended entry from China, Iran, Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland, stopped cruise sailings, placed the nation's health and medical resources under Defense Production Act allocation, suspended foreclosures and evictions on every federally connected loan, moved its own workforce to maximum telework and its customers "to delay transactions which are not time-critical," and suspended jury trials across the federal districts.5

The States on the quarter's last day

On June 30, 2020 the stay-at-home orders had been eased or lifted in thirty-nine jurisdictions and kept in six, but the reopening was itself a regime of orders. Every reopening instrument fixed the date and the conditions on which each function could resume: capacity percentages of 25 to 50 percent; party sizes; spacing; appointment-only service; screening; written protocols; employee and public masks. Forty-six jurisdictions had permitted some or all non-essential premises to reopen only on those conditions. Twelve States kept traveler quarantines; twenty had statewide public masking and exposure-control orders and twenty more had employee masking and exposure-control orders; the June 24 tri-State quarantine reached travelers from eight States; and every State emergency remained in force.6

The metropolitan layer

The metropolitan layer ran ahead of the States in March 2020 and behind them in May and June. San Francisco and the Bay Area ordered shelter in place on March 16; New York City acted between March 12 and March 20; Los Angeles County between March 16 and March 21; Dallas County on March 22; Jackson County, Philadelphia and Denver on March 22-23; Harris County, Mecklenburg County, Fort Worth, Denton County, Atlanta and San Antonio on March 23-24; Orange County on March 24; Milwaukee on March 25; Hillsborough County on March 27. In the other direction, Montgomery County, Maryland kept its stay-at-home order to June 19; Dallas County held reopened businesses to 25 percent from May 4; Harris County's health-and-safety-policy mandate began June 22; Maricopa County's mask regulations took effect June 19-20; and Cincinnati's masking and exposure-control ordinance followed on July 9.7

The federal layer

To the instruments already in force on April 1 the federal layer added the paid-leave mandate of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act from April 1, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's export-detention rule for protective equipment from April 7, Proclamation 10014 from April 23, Executive Order 13917 on April 28, Proclamation 10052 from June 24, and the monthly renewals of the land-border prohibitions.8

How the orders reached every function of an employer

The premises functions of every industry (the sales floor, the dining room, the fitness facility, the production floor, the job site, the dental chair, the worship service, the guest room, the showroom and their counterparts) were closed outright for four to ten weeks and then confined to fixed fractions of capacity under fixed conditions. The workforce was confined at home by stay-at-home orders, kept from work by closed schools and child care, and paid leave by federal mandate for quarantine and school closure. The office was closed or reduced to a fraction by telework mandates in every State that issued one: "100 percent reduction of the in-person workforce" in New York; "Work in offices is prohibited whenever telework ... options are available" in Oregon; "All workers who can work from home must do so" in Minnesota; work that "must be performed remotely" in Michigan from June 1.9 The supply chain ran through closed plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Washington and California, through closed borders and through an allocated market for protective equipment. The customer base was ordered home in forty-two States and territories and quarantined on arrival in twenty-four. Marketing and events ceased under gathering bans and convention closures. Hiring and credentialing ran through closed consulates, immigration offices, licensing boards, examination centers and motor-vehicle offices. Every transaction dependent on a court, clerk or recorder was suspended or delayed by judicial emergency. The Interconnected Economy traces each of those mechanisms through the instruments; the industry analyses apply them function by function.

The finding, in the statute's terms

The Suspension Clause asks whether "the operation of the trade or business ... is fully or partially suspended during the calendar quarter due to orders from an appropriate governmental authority limiting commerce, travel, or group meetings (for commercial, social, religious, or other purposes) due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."10 In Tri-State Memorial Hospital v. United States, No. 2:25-cv-0181-TOR, ECF No. 38 (E.D. Wash. May 28, 2026) (Tri-State), the court held that "a 'partial suspension' is a temporary delay, interruption, or termination of a portion an employer's business."11 Measured by those words, the record of the quarter is this.

During the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2020, with the wages paid after March 12, 2020 that the Service's own instructions assign to that quarter, orders from appropriate governmental authorities limiting commerce, travel and group meetings due to COVID-19 caused a temporary termination and then interruption of a more than nominal portion of the operations of employers in every industry throughout the United States. The orders were, namely, the stay-at-home, closure, gathering, school-closure, elective-procedure and telework orders of every State and the District, among them California's Executive Order N-33-20 (March 19, 2020), Illinois' Executive Order 2020-10 (March 20, 2020), Louisiana's Proclamation 33 JBE 2020 (March 22, 2020), Michigan's Executive Order 2020-21 (March 23, 2020), Kentucky's Executive Order 2020-257 (March 25, 2020), North Carolina's Executive Order 121 (March 27, 2020), Maryland's Order 20-03-30-01 and Virginia's Executive Order 55 (March 30, 2020), Texas's Executive Order GA-14 (March 31, 2020), Florida's Executive Order 20-91 (April 1, 2020) and Georgia's Executive Order 04.02.20.01 (April 2, 2020), together with Ex. NY-002, Ex. PA-002, Ex. WA-016, Ex. NJ-004, Ex. MA-008, Ex. OH-011, Ex. CO-012, Ex. MN-010, Ex. WI-002 and their counterparts on the State pages; the county and city shelter orders of the largest metropolitan areas (Ex. MET-SFO-001, Ex. MET-LA-003, Ex. MET-NYC-003, Ex. MET-DFW-005, Ex. MET-HOU-005, Ex. MET-CHI-001, Ex. MET-PHL-003, Ex. MET-DEN-005, Ex. MET-KC-027, Ex. MET-CLT-018, Ex. MET-SAT-006, Ex. MET-MKE-030, Ex. MET-ORL-004, Ex. MET-TPA-005, Ex. MET-SLC-042, Ex. MET-MSY-002, Ex. MET-ATL-001, Ex. MET-SAN-004, Ex. MET-RIV-006, Ex. MET-SAC-001); and the federal leave, allocation, entry, border, sailing, telework and court instruments (Ex. FED-170, Ex. FED-171, Ex. FED-070, Ex. FED-071, Ex. FED-072, Ex. FED-073, Ex. FED-074, Ex. FED-075, Ex. FED-200, Ex. FED-201, Ex. FED-202, Ex. FED-203, Ex. FED-204, Ex. FED-205, Ex. FED-210, Ex. FED-211, Ex. FED-216, Ex. FED-239, Ex. FED-027, Ex. FED-028, Ex. FED-264, Ex. FED-268, Ex. FED-338, Ex. FED-317, Ex. FED-340, Ex. FED-346, Ex. FED-356, Ex. FED-368, Ex. FED-097, Ex. FED-160). They did so by closing the premises functions of every industry outright and then reopening them only on fixed conditions, by confining the customer base and the workforce at home, by closing the schools and child-care centers on which the workforce depended, by closing the plants, borders and offices on which the supply chain depended, and by suspending the courts, clerks and public offices through which the industries' transactions ran.

What the Service's letters say about this quarter

There were no government orders related to COVID-19 in effect during the quarter which could have fully or partially suspended your trade or business.12

For the second quarter of 2020 the sentence describes a quarter that did not occur. On April 1, 2020 stay-at-home or closure orders were in force in every State and the District, among them New York's Executive Order 202.8 (Ex. NY-002), Washington's Proclamation 20-25 (Ex. WA-016), New Jersey's Executive Order 107 (Ex. NJ-004), Pennsylvania's closure order of March 19, 2020 (Ex. PA-002), California's Executive Order N-33-20 and Texas's Executive Order GA-14, together with the shelter orders of San Francisco (Ex. MET-SFO-001), Los Angeles County (Ex. MET-LA-003) and New York City (Ex. MET-NYC-003); on the same day the federal government had closed the land borders (Ex. FED-216, Ex. FED-239), suspended entry from China, Iran, the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom and Ireland (Ex. FED-200, Ex. FED-201, Ex. FED-202, Ex. FED-203), stopped cruise sailings (Ex. FED-027), placed medical resources under allocation (Ex. FED-070) and mandated paid leave (Ex. FED-170). On June 30, 2020 every State emergency remained in force and forty-six jurisdictions held reopened premises to capacity conditions (Ex. LAW-230). The instruments are in the Library by number, date and page; the sentence cannot be squared with them.

  1. Instructions for Form 941-X (Rev. July 2021), line 18a ("The employee retention credit for wages paid March 13, 2020, through March 31, 2020, is claimed on Form 941 for the second quarter of 2020; therefore, any corrections ... should be reported on Form 941-X filed for the second quarter of 2020"); CARES Act § 2301(m), 134 Stat. at 351 ("This section shall only apply to wages paid after March 12, 2020, and before January 1, 2021."), as amended by Pub. L. 116-260, div. EE, § 207(a)(1), 134 Stat. at 3062. ↩
  2. Amanda Moreland et al., Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders and Changes in Population Movement, 69 Morbidity & Mortality Wkly. Rep. 1198, 1198-99 (Sept. 4, 2020) (Ex. LAW-201) (forty-two States and territories issued mandatory stay-at-home orders between March 1 and May 31, 2020, the last on April 7, 2020; "most jurisdictions issued multiple orders"); Ex. LAW-204 (forty-three governors issued stay-at-home or non-essential-closure orders in March and April 2020); Ex. LAW-229. ↩
  3. The elective-procedure orders: Texas Executive Order GA-09 (Mar. 22, 2020) (Ex. TX-004); New York Executive Order 202.10 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. NY-005); New Jersey Executive Order 109 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. NJ-006); Washington Proclamation 20-24 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. WA-015); Florida Executive Order 20-72 (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. FL-009); Minnesota Emergency Executive Order 20-09 (Mar. 19, 2020); Oregon Executive Order 20-10 (Mar. 19, 2020); Iowa Proclamation of Disaster Emergency (Mar. 26, 2020); Colorado Executive Order D 2020 009 (Mar. 19, 2020); Virginia Order of Public Health Emergency Two (Mar. 25, 2020); Utah State Public Health Order UPHO 2020-03 (Mar. 23, 2020); and Ex. OH-007, Ex. MD-040, Ex. KY-009, Ex. MI-009, Ex. IN-011, Ex. AZ-004, Ex. WV-014, Ex. TN-005, Ex. AL-011, Ex. OK-014, Ex. LA-051, Ex. AK-007, Ex. NM-007, Ex. VT-007. ↩
  4. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QSO-20-14-NH, Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. FED-097). ↩
  5. Department of State, Suspension of Routine Visa Services (Mar. 18-20, 2020) (Ex. FED-327); Department of Homeland Security, Notifications of Temporary Travel Restrictions Applicable to Land Ports of Entry and Ferries Service, United States-Canada and United States-Mexico (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. FED-216, Ex. FED-239); Proclamations 9984, 9992, 9993 and 9996 (Ex. FED-200, Ex. FED-201, Ex. FED-202, Ex. FED-203); CDC No Sail Order (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. FED-027); Executive Order 13909 (Mar. 18, 2020) and the Defense Production Act instruments (Ex. FED-070, Ex. FED-071, Ex. FED-072, Ex. FED-073, Ex. FED-074); the FHFA, HUD and VA moratoria of Mar. 18, 2020 and CARES Act §§ 4022-4024 (Ex. FED-346, Ex. FED-356, Ex. FED-368, Ex. FED-340); OMB Memoranda M-20-16 (Mar. 17, 2020) and M-20-23 (Apr. 20, 2020) (Ex. FED-264, Ex. FED-268); the general orders of the federal district courts of March 2020 (Ex. FED-338, Ex. FED-317, Ex. FED-312, Ex. FED-284). ↩
  6. Kaiser Family Foundation, State COVID-19 Data and Policy Actions, State Social Distancing Actions (file of June 30, 2020) (Ex. LAW-230); New York Executive Order 205 (June 24, 2020; effective June 25, 2020) (Ex. NY-006). ↩
  7. Ex. MET-SFO-001, Ex. MET-NYC-001, Ex. MET-NYC-003, Ex. MET-LA-001, Ex. MET-LA-003, Ex. MET-DFW-005, Ex. MET-KC-027, Ex. MET-PHL-003, Ex. MET-DEN-005, Ex. MET-HOU-005, Ex. MET-CLT-018, Ex. MET-DFW-060, Ex. MET-DFW-077, Ex. MET-ATL-001, Ex. MET-SAT-006, Ex. MET-MKE-030, Ex. MET-ORL-004, Ex. MET-TPA-005, Ex. MET-DCM-026, Ex. MET-DFW-017, Ex. MET-HOU-016, Ex. MET-PHX-001, Ex. MET-CIN-001. ↩
  8. Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Pub. L. 116-127 (Mar. 18, 2020), and the Department of Labor's temporary rule of Apr. 1, 2020 (Ex. FED-170, Ex. FED-171); FEMA, Temporary Final Rule, Prioritization and Allocation of Certain Scarce or Threatened Health and Medical Resources for Domestic Use (Apr. 7, 2020) (Ex. FED-075); Proclamation 10014 (Apr. 22, 2020) (Ex. FED-210); Executive Order 13917 (Apr. 28, 2020) (Ex. FED-073); Proclamation 10052 (June 22, 2020) (Ex. FED-211); the DHS border notifications of Apr. 22, May 20 and June 22, 2020 (Ex. FED-217, Ex. FED-218, Ex. FED-219, Ex. FED-240, Ex. FED-241, Ex. FED-242). ↩
  9. New York Executive Order 202.8 (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. NY-002); Oregon Executive Order 20-12 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. OR-007); Minnesota Emergency Executive Order 20-20 (Mar. 25, 2020) (Ex. MN-010); Michigan Executive Order 2020-110 (June 1, 2020), secs. 2, 3, 11, 19. ↩
  10. CARES Act § 2301(c)(2)(A)(ii)(I), 134 Stat. at 348 (Ex. LAW-001). The clause is quoted from the Statutes at Large. ↩
  11. Tri-State, ECF No. 38, at 9 ("a 'partial suspension' is a temporary delay, interruption, or termination of a portion an employer's business. The language is plain."). Pins are the order's own pages, which equal the ECF pages. ↩
  12. The Service's form language on the suspension prong in Letters 105C issued since 2024. See Opening Br. at 11-12 (the opening brief of the appellant in Stenson Tamaddon, LLC v. IRS, No. 25-4217 (9th Cir. Sept. 17, 2025)) (record examples of letters and Forms 886-A deciding claims on the Notice, 2-ER-102, 3-ER-396). ↩

Partial suspension in this quarter

Every analytical page of The COVID Project applies the same five steps. Here they are applied to the second quarter of 2020, with the Library's own counts and instruments.

  1. The order

    4,976 orders from appropriate governmental authorities carry this quarter in the Library: 4,377 from States, counties, cities, courts and regulators and 599 from the federal layer. Each names its issuer, its instrument, its dates and its source, and where the file is held, the exhibit opens from the record. Three of them, of different kinds:

    • Amy Acton, MD, MPH, Director, Ohio Department of Health, Director's Order Limiting the Sale of Food and Beverages, Liquor, Beer and Wine to Carry-out and Delivery Only (Mar. 15, 2020) (Ex. OH-004) State: Ohio Business closureAlcohol and bars
    • Governor JB Pritzker, Executive Order 2020-04 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 2) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. IL-002) State: Illinois Gathering capEvents and venuesCourts and public offices
    • Department of Homeland Security, Notification of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled From or Were Otherwise Present Within the Countries of the Schengen Area, 85 Fed. Reg. 15059 (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. ECO-C-045) Federal: United States Travel and quarantine
  2. The function of the business it reached

    Each record tags the functions of a business the instrument reached. Among this quarter's orders, the six cross-cutting functions appear this often:

    • CB the customer base 1,910
    • WF workforce availability 1,366
    • HR hiring and staffing 654
    • OP office and administration 541
    • SC supply chain 483
    • MK marketing and events 247

    The industry pages carry the function codes of each of the twenty-seven industries and apply this step to them; the report builder applies it to your own State, metro and industry.

  3. The change it compelled

    The operative words of the first example above, as the record holds them:

    1. Liquor, beer and wine sales in the State of Ohio are restricted to carry-out sales and delivery only, to the extent permitted by law. No onsite consumption is permitted. 2. Food and beverage sales are restricted to carry-out and delivery only, no onsite consumption is permitted.... 8. This Order shall take effect at 9:00 p.m. tonight, March 15, 2020.

    Amy Acton, MD, MPH, Director, Ohio Department of Health, Director's Order Limiting the Sale of Food and Beverages, Liquor, Beer and Wine to Carry-out and Delivery Only (Mar. 15, 2020) (Ex. OH-004). Every record page shows the full operative words verbatim and the enforcement provision.

  4. The quarter

    On Apr. 1, 2020, the quarter's first day, 51 of the 51 jurisdictions had a State, county, city or court order in force and 2,190 orders were in force at every level nationally. On June 30, 2020, its last day, 51 jurisdictions had such an order in force and 2,976 orders were in force nationally. The federal layer was in force on every day of the quarter (283 instruments on the first day, 487 on the last). The orders of March 13 to 31, 2020 count with this quarter because the wages paid after March 12, 2020 are claimed in it. The Notice's own Q&A-22 treats an employer suspended for part of a quarter as suspended for the quarter.

    These counts follow the Library's in-force rule: an order counts from its effective date to its recorded end date, and an order without a recorded end date is counted for 120 days after it took effect.

  5. The statute's answer

    the operation of the trade or business described in clause (i) is fully or partially suspended during the calendar quarter due to orders from an appropriate governmental authority limiting commerce, travel, or group meetings (for commercial, social, religious, or other purposes) due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

    CARES Act § 2301(c)(2)(A)(ii)(I); I.R.C. § 3134(c)(2)(A)(ii)(I) (the Suspension Clause)

    A partial suspension is a temporary delay, interruption or termination of a portion of an employer's operations, and "due to" asks only whether the suspension would have occurred but for the orders (Tri-State Memorial Hospital v. United States). Nothing in the statute asks whether the business was essential, stayed open, could telework, or served customers who were themselves under orders. Where an order in force in this quarter reached a function of a business and compelled a change in it, the operation was partially suspended in this quarter due to that order.

    Read the test and the method · The statute, element by element · The Service's sentences, answered

Instruments in force in this quarter

4,976 orders carry this quarter: 4,660 took effect within it, 221 were in force from an earlier date, 77 are dated after June 30, 2020 but carry the quarter in the record, and 18 carry no date. The table shows the first 100 that took effect within it, by date; the Library holds them all.Open in the LibraryDownload the list (CSV)Download the exhibits (ZIP, by State)

By limitation type

StartExhibitJurisdictionInstrumentTypes
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-073United States (Federal Railroad Administration; all railroads)
Federal
FRA Administrator's Declaration of Emergency Situation: Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) (Mar. 13, 2020), Docket FRA-2020-0002 (as posted on the FRA website, updated Mar. 23, 2020)
Federal Railroad Administration, Administrator Ronald L. Batory
Emergency declarationOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-074United States (Federal Railroad Administration)
Federal
FRA press release of Mar. 14, 2020 announcing the Administrator's Declaration of Emergency Situation (Mar. 13, 2020)
Federal Railroad Administration
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD-035Department of Defense (all uniformed and civilian personnel and family members)
Federal
Memorandum, Travel Restrictions for DoD Components in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Mar. 11, 2020)
Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper
Travel and quarantineWorkplace rules
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-005United States; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (federal)
Federal
FIL-17-2020
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Business closureOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-051United States; Securities and Exchange Commission (federal)
Federal
Investment Company Act Release No. 33817, Order Granting Exemptions From Specified Provisions of the Investment Company Act and Certain Rules Thereunder; Commission Statement Regarding Prospectus Delivery
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gathering capOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-052United States; Securities and Exchange Commission (federal)
Federal
Investment Advisers Act Release No. 5463, Order Under Section 206A of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Granting Exemptions from Specified Provisions of the Investment Advisers Act and Certain Rules Thereunder
Securities and Exchange Commission
Telework mandateOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-053United States; Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance (federal staff guidance)
Federal
Staff Guidance for Conducting Shareholder Meetings in Light of COVID-19 Concerns (issued March 13, 2020; updated April 7, 2020; further updated January 19, 2022)
SEC Division of Corporation Finance
Gathering capOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-057United States; Securities and Exchange Commission (federal)
Federal
Investment Company Act Release No. 33824, Order Under Section 6(c) and Section 38(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 Granting Exemptions from Specified Provisions of the Investment Company Act and Certain Rules Thereunder; Commission Statement Regarding Prospectus Delivery
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gathering capOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-058United States; Securities and Exchange Commission (federal)
Federal
Investment Advisers Act Release No. 5469, Order Under Section 206A of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Granting Exemptions from Specified Provisions of the Investment Advisers Act and Certain Rules Thereunder
Securities and Exchange Commission
Telework mandateOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-064United States; Securities and Exchange Commission (federal)
Federal
Investment Company Act Release No. 33897, Order Under Section 6(c) and Section 38(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 Granting Exemptions from Specified Provisions of the Investment Company Act and Certain Rules Thereunder [In-Person Board Relief]
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gathering capOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-072United States (federal); Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal
Federal Bureau of Prisons COVID-19 Action Plan, Phase Two: agency-wide modified operations (Mar. 13, 2020)
Federal Bureau of Prisons (Director), after coordination with DOJ and the White House
Business closureGathering capTravel and quarantineWorkplace rules
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-003United States Environmental Protection Agency (nationwide)
Federal
Memorandum, 'COVID-19 Implications for EPA's Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program' (temporary policy)
Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
Workplace rulesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-037Orange County Convention Center (Orange County Government), Florida (county department)
County
'Orange County Convention Center Event Updates' page: show cancellations and postponements (captured Mar. 25, 2020)
Orange County Convention Center (Executive Director Mark Tester), under Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings's emergency executive orders
Business closureGathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-072Austin Energy (City of Austin), Texas
City
'Utility Updates Related to COVID-19' page (updates of Mar. 13, 16 and 17, 2020; captured Mar. 22, 2020)
Austin Energy
Business closureOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-ALCOHOL-077Virginia (State alcoholic-beverage regulator)
Sector regulator
VA ABC Bureau of Law Enforcement COVID-19 Response, Licensee Topics (version 15, September 29, 2020)
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, Bureau of Law Enforcement (Travis G. Hill, Chief Executive Officer)
Alcohol and barsWorkplace rulesSupply chainOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-013Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; State level
State
PA DOC COVID-19 page (as archived Mar. 21, 2020), with the Mar. 13, 2020 release 'Department of Corrections Cancels Visits Statewide, Begins Enhanced Screenings of ALL Employees'
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Secretary John E. Wetzel)
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-015Wisconsin Department of Corrections (Division of Adult Institutions); State level
State
WI DOC COVID-19 Announcements page (as archived Apr. 4, 2020)
Wisconsin Department of Corrections (Secretary Kevin A. Carr)
Gathering capHealth care ordersOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-030Washington State Department of Corrections (Reentry Division; work release); State level
State
Memorandum to Work Release Staff, 'Operational Changes in Response to COVID-19' (Mar. 13, 2020)
Washington State Department of Corrections, Reentry Division (Senior Administrator)
Stay-at-homeOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-055King County, Washington (Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention; County Executive); county level
County
DAJD News, 'King County jails have quickly reduced the number of people in custody by more than 600 adults, following direction by Executive Constantine' (Apr. 3, 2020; updated May 7, 2020)
King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention, following direction by County Executive Dow Constantine
Quarantine and isolationOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-066Texas Department of Criminal Justice; State level
State
TDCJ Visitation Alert of Mar. 13, 2020
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (Executive Director Bryan Collier)
Gathering cap
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-071Georgia Department of Corrections; State level
State
GDC notice, 'Visitation Suspended Through 8.12.2020' (current as of July 9, 2020), with the Visitation Update of July 8, 2020 and Attorney Visitation notice of July 10, 2020
Georgia Department of Corrections (Commissioner Timothy C. Ward)
Gathering capCourts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-082Indiana Department of Correction; State level
State
IDOC 'Comprehensive Response to COVID-19' page (as archived Sept. 21, 2020), linking Executive Directive 20-20 (Pandemic Response) and the IDOC and Wexford COVID-19 Protocol
Indiana Department of Correction (Commissioner Robert E. Carter, Jr.)
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rules
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-087Alaska Department of Corrections; State level
State
Alaska DOC COVID-19 page, 'Access to Institutions' (as archived Mar. 29, 2020)
Alaska Department of Corrections (Commissioner Nancy Dahlstrom)
Gathering capCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-076Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (statewide)
Court
Supreme Judicial Court Order in re COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic regarding access to state courthouses and court facilities (OE-144)
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Travel and quarantineCourts and public officesQuarantine and isolation
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-GAMING-RACING-024New Jersey Racing Commission (State racing regulator, Department of Law and Public Safety)
Sector regulator
Directive No. 1-2020
New Jersey Racing Commission, Executive Director Judith A. Nason
Other
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-GAMING-RACING-090New Mexico Gaming Control Board (State gaming regulator)
Sector regulator
Director's letter to bingo and gaming licensees re: Public Health Emergency Order to Limit Mass Gatherings Due to COVID-19
New Mexico Gaming Control Board, Acting Executive Director Cynthia M. Ortega-Armijo
Gathering cap
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-009Texas; Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
Sector regulator
TDLR COVID-19 page, 'TDLR Takes Action in Response to COVID-19 Threat' (TDLR Updates Mar. 13-Oct. 13, 2020, with the Governor's executive orders and waivers), as archived Oct. 16, 2020
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
Business closureCapacity limitEvents and venuesWorkplace rulesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-024Virginia; DPOR (all regulatory boards, including the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology)
Sector regulator
Temporary Waiver of Regulations that Prohibit or Limit Online, Electronic, or Distance Theoretical Instruction (effective Mar. 13, 2020; amended May 27, 2020)
DPOR Director Mary Broz-Vaughan
Schools and child careOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-009Illinois (State public utility commission)
Sector regulator
Letter to Regulatory Representatives of Illinois Public Utilities re Termination of Utility Service and Tracking of Costs during Public Health Emergency
Illinois Commerce Commission, Acting Executive Director Jim Zolnierek
Other
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-TERRITORIES-039U.S. Virgin Islands (territory) - Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs
Territorial
DLCA COVID-19 Price Freeze Order and Restricted Sale Order
V.I. Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs (Commissioner)
Supply chainOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-TERRITORIES-040U.S. Virgin Islands (territory) - Governor
Territorial
Executive Order and Proclamation Suspending Certain Provisions of the V.I. Code During the State of Health Emergency
Governor Albert Bryan Jr.
Emergency declarationCourts and public officesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-TERRITORIES-044U.S. Virgin Islands (territory) - Governor
Territorial
Fifth Supplemental Executive Order and Proclamation
Governor Albert Bryan Jr.
Gathering capAlcohol and barsCourts and public officesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-TRIBAL-041Ho-Chunk Nation (Wisconsin; trust lands in Jackson, Sauk, Wood, Monroe, Juneau, Dane, Shawano and other counties) - tribal government
Tribal
Administrative Order Mar. 13, 2020-1
President Marlon E. WhiteEagle, Ho-Chunk Nation
Emergency declarationTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-TRIBAL-068Poarch Band of Creek Indians (Poarch Creek Reservation, Escambia County, Alabama; trust lands in Montgomery, Elmore and Escambia Counties) - tribal government
Tribal
Tribal Council Resolution TCR 2020-030
Tribal Council of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (Tribal Chair Stephanie A. Bryan)
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AGY-USCG-PORTS-071Virginia Port Authority (political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia) and Virginia International Terminals, LLC (its operating affiliate)
State
Newsroom notice, The Port of Virginia Planning Efforts for Addressing COVID 19 (Mar. 13, 2020; document dated Mar. 19, 2020)
The Port of Virginia (Virginia Port Authority / Virginia International Terminals, LLC)
Workplace rulesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AL-001Alabama
State
Proclamation by the Governor: State of Emergency (COVID-19)
Governor Kay Ivey
Emergency declarationHealth care orders
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AR-045Arkansas
Sector regulator
ADH-DHS Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Long-Term Care Facilities (revised March 13, 2020) (directive)
Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health
Health care orders
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. AR-074Arkansas
Sector regulator
ADH-DHS Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Long-Term Care Facilities (revised March 13, 2020), as posted on the ADH directives page through summer 2020 ('directive_long_term_care')
Secretary of Health and Secretary of Human Services
Health care orders
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. CA-004California
State
Executive Order N-26-20
Governor Gavin Newsom
Schools and child care
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. CT-059Connecticut
Sector regulator
DPH Order to nursing home facilities, residential care homes and chronic disease hospitals implementing 30-day visitor restrictions
Department of Public Health (Commissioner Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell)
Business closureHealth care orders
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. DC-083District of Columbia
Sector regulator
OSSE, Child Care Provider Closures and Public Funding (issued March 13, 2020)
Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)
Business closureSchools and child care
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. DE-001Delaware
State
Declaration of a State of Emergency for the State of Delaware Due to a Public Health Threat
Governor John C. Carney
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-A-003United States
Federal
Proclamation 9993
President Donald J. Trump
Travel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-A-119United States
Federal
Notification of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled From or Were Otherwise Present Within the Countries of the Schengen Area, 85 Fed. Reg. 15059 (Mar. 17, 2020)
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
Travel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-B-017California
State
Executive Order N-26-20
Governor Gavin Newsom
Schools and child care
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-B-073Michigan
State
Executive Order No. 2020-5
Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Gathering capSchools and child care
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-B-094Louisiana
State
Proclamation Number 27 JBE 2020
Governor John Bel Edwards
Gathering capSchools and child care
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-C-045United States
Federal
Notification of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled From or Were Otherwise Present Within the Countries of the Schengen Area, 85 Fed. Reg. 15059
Department of Homeland Security
Travel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ECO-C-061Texas
Court
Misc. Docket No. 20-9042, First Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster
Supreme Court of Texas (joint with the Court of Criminal Appeals, Misc. Docket No. 20-007)
Courts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. FED-006United States (every State, Tribe, territory and the District of Columbia)
Federal
Emergency determination of March 13, 2020 under Stafford Act § 501(b) (nationwide emergency; implemented by FEMA as EM-3428 through EM-3580 series, one per State and territory, all dated March 13, 2020)
President Donald J. Trump (letter to the Secretaries of Homeland Security, the Treasury and HHS and the FEMA Administrator)
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. FED-097United States (Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes)
Federal
QSO-20-14-NH, Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes (Mar. 9, 2020; REVISED Mar. 13, 2020)
CMS, Quality, Safety & Oversight Group
Business closureGathering capHealth care orders
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. FED-202United States
Federal
Proclamation 9993
President Donald J. Trump
Travel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. FL-064Florida (all State courts)
Court
Administrative Order No. AOSC20-13
Chief Justice Charles T. Canady, Supreme Court of Florida
Gathering capCourts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. ID-001Idaho
State
Proclamation declaring a state of emergency
Governor Brad Little
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. IL-002Illinois
State
Executive Order 2020-04 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 2)
Governor JB Pritzker
Gathering capEvents and venuesCourts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. IN-002Indiana
State
Executive Order 20-03
Governor Eric J. Holcomb
Supply chain
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. LA-002Louisiana
State
Proclamation 27 JBE 2020
Governor John Bel Edwards
Gathering capSchools and child careEvents and venuesCourts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MA-003Massachusetts
State
COVID-19 Order No. 2
Governor Charles D. Baker
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-ATL-033Cobb County, Georgia (Cobb Judicial Circuit)
Court
Order Declaring Judicial Emergency, In re Declaration of Judicial Emergency, No. 20-1-0005 (Cobb Super. Ct.)
Chief Judge Reuben M. Green, Superior Court of Cobb County
Courts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-AUS-034Travis County, Texas (all healthcare facilities)
County
Health Authority Order of Control Measures for Healthcare Facilities
Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Mark E. Escott, MD, MPH, Medical Director and Interim Health Authority)
Health care ordersWorkplace rules
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-BAL-030Baltimore County, Maryland
County
Executive Order No. 2020-002, Emergency Declaration
County Executive John A. Olszewski, Jr.
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-BAL-050Anne Arundel County, Maryland
County
Executive Order No. 16, Proclamation of Civil Emergency
County Executive Steuart Pittman
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-CLT-008Mecklenburg County; City of Charlotte; Towns of Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville
County
Mecklenburg County and City of Charlotte Joint Proclamation of a State of Emergency
George Dunlap, Chair, Board of County Commissioners, and Vi Alexander Lyles, Mayor of Charlotte, with the six town mayors
Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantine
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-CMH-004City of Columbus and City of Worthington, Ohio
City
Board of Health Resolution No. 20-08
Board of Health of the City of Columbus (Mysheika W. Roberts, MD, MPH, Secretary; Mary Ellen Wewers, PhD, MPH, RN, President Pro Tempore)
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-CMH-005City of Columbus and City of Worthington, Ohio
City
Board of Health Resolution No. 20-09
Board of Health of the City of Columbus
Emergency declarationOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DCM-080Arlington County, Virginia
County
Declaration of Local Emergency
County Manager Mark Schwartz (Director of Emergency Management); ratified by the Arlington County Board
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DEN-001City and County of Denver, Colorado
City
Public Health Order restricting access to City facilities and cancelling permitted outdoor gatherings of 250 or more (indexed by DDPHE as the 'City and County of Denver Official State of Emergency Declaration')
Executive Director, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment (Robert M. McDonald)
Business closureGathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DET-023City of Detroit, Michigan (36th District Court)
Court
Announcement: 36th District Court Provides Update Concerning Moratorium on Evictions
36th District Court (Detroit)
Courts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DET-049City of Detroit, Michigan (36th District Court)
Court
Announcements extending the 36th District Court eviction moratorium (Apr. 9, May 7, May 23, June 26 and July 16, 2020)
36th District Court (Detroit)
Courts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DET-057Oakland County, Michigan
County
Declaration of a local state of emergency
Oakland County Executive David Coulter
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DFW-002Dallas County, Texas
County
Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins (Community Gatherings)
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DFW-056City of Fort Worth, Texas
City
Declaration of Public Health Emergency
Mayor Betsy Price (emergency management director)
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-DFW-073Denton County, Texas
County
Executive Order AE-20-03, Disaster Declaration and Executive Order of the Denton County Judge
Denton County Judge Andy Eads
Emergency declarationGathering cap
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-LAS-024City of Reno, Nevada
City
Mayor's declaration of emergency in the City of Reno (Mar. 13, 2020) and the City Manager's telework and service-reduction orders, reported to and accepted by the Council Mar. 25, 2020
Reno City Council and Redevelopment Agency Board (joint regular meeting, Mar. 25, 2020, item D.1); Mayor Hillary Schieve (declaration of Mar. 13, 2020); City Manager Sabra Newby (staff and service orders)
Emergency declarationTelework mandateCourts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-MIA-043Palm Beach County, Florida
County
Declaration of a State of Emergency, Palm Beach County, Florida, for COVID-19
Mayor Dave Kerner, Board of County Commissioners
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-MKE-001Dane County and City of Madison, Wisconsin
County
Order of the Public Health Officer of Madison and Dane County Imposing a Countywide Moratorium on Mass Gatherings of 250 or More People
Janel Heinrich, Public Health Officer of Madison and Dane County (Public Health Madison & Dane County)
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-MSY-038Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans; First and Second City Courts of New Orleans
Court
Civil District Court and First and Second City Court Emergency Order in Response to Public Health Crisis (COVID-19)
Chief Judges of the Civil District Court and of the First and Second City Courts
Courts and public offices
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-NYC-052Nassau County, New York
County
Executive Order Number 2 of 2020, Declaration of Local State of Emergency
County Executive Laura Curran
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-NYC-053Nassau County, New York
County
Executive Order Number 3 of 2020, Local Emergency Order No. 1
County Executive Laura Curran
Business closureCourts and public officesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-ORL-001Orange County, Florida
County
Emergency Executive Order No. 2020-01
Mayor Jerry L. Demings, as Director of Emergency Management
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-ORL-038City of Orlando, Florida
City
City of Orlando Executive Order: Declaration of State of Emergency (Mar. 13, 2020)
Mayor Buddy Dyer
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-PDX-003Multnomah County, Oregon
County
Closure of all 19 Multnomah County Library branches; suspension of in-person jail visits (County facility closures under the emergency)
Chair Deborah Kafoury; Library Director Vailey Oehlke; Sheriff Mike Reese
Business closureCourts and public officesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-PHL-039Bucks County, Pennsylvania
County
Resolution Ratifying and Extending Declaration of Disaster Emergency
Bucks County Board of Commissioners (Diane Ellis-Marseglia, Robert Harvie Jr., Gene DiGirolamo)
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-PIT-009City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
City
Declaration of Emergency (Declaration of Disaster Emergency) of the City of Pittsburgh
Mayor William Peduto (ratified by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh, Resolution 140 of 2020, March 17, 2020)
Emergency declarationGathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-RIV-058Riverside County, California
County
Order of the Public Health Officer Cancelling All Gatherings of More Than 10 Persons (March 13, 2020) and Order of the County Public Health Officer of March 16, 2020
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SAC-053City of Sacramento, California
City
City release of Mar. 12, 2020 announcing the emergency measures adopted at the Mar. 13, 2020 special meeting (local emergency declaration, Resolution 2020-0075; cancellation of special-event permits over 250 persons; eviction prohibition; small business loans)
City of Sacramento (Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Council; Director of Emergency Services)
Emergency declarationEvents and venuesOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SAN-002San Diego County, California
County
Order of the Health Officer (Mar. 12, 2020; effective Mar. 13, 2020); Amended Order of the Health Officer and Emergency Regulations (Mar. 16, 2020; effective Mar. 17, 2020); Addendum (Mar. 17, 2020); Addendum 2 (Mar. 18, 2020); Addendum 3 (Mar. 23, 2020; effective Mar. 24, 2020) (County composite file)
Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., Public Health Officer, County of San Diego; Emergency Regulations by Helen Robbins-Meyer, Director of Emergency Services
Business closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantineSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SAT-002Bexar County, Texas
County
Declaration of Public Health Emergency (declaration of local state of disaster)
County Judge Nelson W. Wolff
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SDF-033Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky
County
LFCHD recommends postponing or canceling all public events during COVID-19 response (March 12, 2020)
Mayor Linda Gorton and Commissioner of Health Kraig Humbaugh (LFCHD)
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SDF-043Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, Kentucky
City
Executive Order declaring a local state of emergency (signed March 13, 2020; presumably No. 2020-001)
Mayor Greg Fischer
Emergency declarationEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SDF-044Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Kentucky
City
Executive Order 2020-01 (declaration that a state of emergency exists in Lexington-Fayette County)
Mayor Linda Gorton
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SEA-043Snohomish County, Washington
County
Emergency Executive Order No. 20-02: Order Regarding Grocery Supply Chains
Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers
Supply chainOther
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-SFO-009City and County of San Francisco
County
Order of the Health Officer No. C19-05b (revised)
Health Officer of the City and County of San Francisco
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-STL-001City of St. Louis, Missouri
City
Mayoral Proclamation of Public Health Emergency (COVID-19)
Mayor Lyda Krewson
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-STL-002City of St. Louis, Missouri
City
Health Commissioner's Order No. 1
Fredrick Echols, M.D., Director of Health and Hospitals/Health Commissioner
Gathering capEvents and venues
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-STL-026St. Charles County, Missouri
County
County Executive declaration of emergency (COVID-19), as announced in the County's news release of Mar. 13, 2020
County Executive Steve Ehlmann
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-STL-048St. Louis County, Missouri
County
Executive Order No. 10 (State of Emergency)
County Executive Sam Page
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-STL-103St. Louis County, Missouri
County
Executive Order No. 10 (State of Emergency) (web posting)
County Executive Sam Page
Emergency declaration
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-TPA-019City of Tampa, Florida
City
City of Tampa Notice: COVID-19 Limitations on Large Gatherings
City of Tampa (Office of the Mayor)
Other
Mar. 13, 2020Ex. MET-TPA-055Pinellas County, Florida
County
Resolution No. 20-16 (declaring a state of local emergency)
Board of County Commissioners of Pinellas County
Emergency declaration

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