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The Alabama file holds 94 instruments from the State's governor, health authorities, courts and agencies, 88 of them with the exhibit file held by The COVID Project. 127 records in the Library resolve to Alabama in all, counting its metros, the agency clusters and the standing duties.

Code ALFirst closure or stay-at-home order Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. AL-091End of general restrictions Apr. 9, 2021Orders reaching 2021 Q3 18Primary source read 88 Confirmed from a secondary source 6
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The Alabama file

The record in brief

Alabama's COVID-19 regime ran on two instruments that were issued together and extended together for fourteen months: the Governor's state public health emergency under the Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955 (Ala. Code § 31-9-8), proclaimed March 13, 2020 and extended in sixty-day steps until it was terminated at 11:59 p.m. on July 6, 2021, and the State Health Officer's Order Suspending Certain Public Gatherings under Ala. Code § 22-2-2(4), first issued for five Birmingham-area counties on March 17, 2020, made statewide on March 19, 2020, and amended twenty-two times through May 3, 2021. From July 15, 2020 every amended order was also promulgated by gubernatorial proclamation as an order under Ala. Code §§ 31-9-6(1) and 31-9-13, enforced by the law-enforcing authorities of the State under § 31-9-14, with a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment in the county jail under § 31-9-22.

2020 Q2 (with the March 13-31 run-up). The March 19 order prohibited gatherings of 25 or more, closed all schools, colleges and child-care centers at the close of business that day, barred visitors from hospitals and nursing homes, delayed all elective dental and medical procedures and ended on-premises consumption at every restaurant, bar and brewery statewide. It told employers in terms that they were 'authorized to advise employees to work from home or maintain flexible work schedules.' The March 27 amendment (effective March 28 at 5:00 p.m.) cut the gathering cap to 10, closed entertainment venues, athletic facilities, close-contact service providers and six categories of retail store, and postponed all dental, medical and surgical procedures other than emergencies. The Stay at Home Order of April 3 (effective April 4 at 5:00 p.m.) ordered 'every person' to 'stay at his or her place of residence' except for enumerated essential activities, limited work outside the home to 'essential businesses and operations' and to 'work-related activities that do not require any regular interaction within six feet of another person,' capped essential retailers at 50 percent of fire-marshal occupancy, quarantined every person who tested positive for 14 days, closed beaches, and preempted every less stringent local curfew or quarantine measure. The Governor's supplemental proclamations of March 18, 26 and April 2-3 closed public K-12 schools for the rest of the 2019-20 year, moved public bodies and shareholder meetings to remote procedures, authorized remote notarization and directed law enforcement to cease enforcing evictions and foreclosures (to June 1, 2020). The Supreme Court of Alabama suspended all in-person court proceedings from March 16 to May 15, 2020 and jury trials until September 14, 2020. Birmingham (Ordinances 20-48, 20-50 and the April 30 'Safer in Birmingham Curfew'), Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery imposed 24-hour or overnight curfews; Birmingham's Ordinance 20-69 required masks in public from May 1, 2020. The Safer at Home Order of April 28 (effective April 30 at 5:00 p.m.) replaced the stay-home command with a mandatory employer code ('all employers shall take reasonable steps... facilitating remote working arrangements; and minimizing employee travel'), kept retail at 50 percent, kept entertainment venues, gyms and close-contact providers closed, and kept every restaurant closed to on-premises consumption until May 11. The May 8 and May 21 amendments reopened restaurants (party size 8, six feet between tables, employee masks), salons and gyms (50 percent) on May 11, and entertainment venues (50 percent) on May 22; schools and child care remained closed to in-person operation until June 1 and May 23, 2020.

2020 Q3. The Safer at Home Order remained in force throughout, extended June 30, July 15, July 29, August 27 and September 30. The July 15 amendment (effective July 16 at 5:00 p.m.) imposed the statewide mask requirement in every indoor space open to the public, every transportation-service vehicle and every outdoor gathering of ten or more, and preempted the Jefferson County Health Officer's June 26 face-covering order and Birmingham's ordinances. The ABC Board's emergency rule of July 27 (effective August 1) ordered every on-premises licensee to stop alcohol service at 11:00 p.m., and its September 29 rule bound every licensed bar and restaurant to 50 percent occupancy on pain of immediate license suspension. Retail, gyms and entertainment venues stayed at 50 percent of occupancy through November 7, 2020; hospitals and nursing homes were limited to one caregiver or visitor at a time from October 2.

2020 Q4 and 2021 Q1 (the winter). Alabama did not add closures in the winter wave; it held the mask mandate, the employer code, the restaurant party-size and spacing rules, the close-contact-provider and athletic-facility rules and the hospital visitation limits in force by amendments of November 5, December 9, 2020, January 21 and March 4, 2021, and it extended the emergency on November 5 (to January 7), December 9 (to March 8) and March 4 (to May 7, 2021). The November 5 amendment ended the numerical occupancy caps effective November 8, 2020 in favor of six-foot spacing or impermeable partitions. The ABC Board readopted its curbside-sales rule on December 14, 2020.

2021 Q2. The March 4 amendment (effective March 6) removed the restaurant party-size limit and allowed two hospital visitors; the March 22 technical revision cut school spacing to three feet. The Safer Apart Order of April 7 (effective April 9 at 5:00 p.m.) rescinded the mask mandate and converted every employer and business requirement into an 'encouraged' measure, while keeping three commands: the quarantine of every person who tests positive, senior-center compliance with Department of Senior Services guidelines, and hospital and long-term-care visitation rules. Birmingham re-enacted its own mask ordinance (No. 21-31) on April 6, 2021, effective through May 24, 2021, and the Safer Apart Order's preemption clause reached only municipal ordinances adopted before March 4, 2021. The May 3 amendment carried the Safer Apart Order to 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2021 and the Governor extended the emergency to July 6, 2021. SB 267 (vaccine passports) passed May 17, 2021.

2021 Q3. The state of emergency ran through 11:59 p.m. July 6, 2021 and the Supreme Court's judicial emergency to 5:00 p.m. July 7, 2021. On August 13, 2021 the Governor proclaimed a new state public health emergency for COVID-19 (hospitalizations 235 on July 6 to 2,441 on August 12; 95 percent of ICU beds occupied), suspending licensure, supervision and facility rules for hospitals and waiving federal hours-of-service rules for emergency freight; it was extended on October 8 through October 31, 2021. The Supreme Court declared a second judicial state of emergency on August 20, 2021 (effective August 23, to November 29, 2021), superseding rules that impeded audio-video proceedings, and kept its workers'-compensation order in force to October 29, 2021. Birmingham required masks of every visitor to City indoor facilities from July 30, 2021 (EO 88-21) and of its workforce (EO 87-20, revised July 1, July 29 and September 27, 2021); Birmingham City Schools required masks of all students, employees and visitors from the August 2, 2021 opening. SB 267 barred every Alabama business from refusing service on the basis of immunization status. Alabama issued no statewide health-care-worker or State-employee vaccination mandate; Executive Order 724 of October 25, 2021 (post-period) directed the executive branch not to enforce federal mandates.

The six quarters

What the record shows in force in Alabama on the first day and the last day of each quarter. Every exhibit named here opens its record. The orders of March 13 to 31, 2020 belong to the second quarter of 2020, because wages paid after March 12, 2020 fall in that quarter.

QuarterFirst dayLast day
2020 Q2Second quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →April 1, 2020: state public health emergency (AL-001); SHO amended order of March 27 in force (AL-011): gatherings of 10+ prohibited, entertainment venues, athletic facilities, close-contact providers and six retail categories closed, schools and child care closed, hospital and nursing-home visitation barred, all non-emergency dental, medical and surgical procedures postponed, no on-premises restaurant or bar service, beaches closed; Supreme Court in-person proceedings suspended (AL-054, AL-055); Birmingham 24-hour shelter-in-place (AL-069); Tuscaloosa and Montgomery curfews (AL-094, AL-095). The Stay at Home Order took effect April 4 at 5:00 p.m. (AL-013).June 30, 2020: state of emergency extended to July 11 (AL-018); Safer at Home Order as amended May 21 and June 30 (AL-021, AL-024): mandatory employer code (six feet, remote working arrangements, minimized travel), retail, gyms and entertainment venues at 50 percent occupancy, restaurants party size 8 and six feet between tables with employee masks, close-contact providers under mask and glove rules, schools operating only under distancing and mask rules, hospital visitation limited; Supreme Court jury trials suspended to September 14 (AL-058); Jefferson County face-covering order in force from June 29 (AL-074); Birmingham mask ordinance in force (AL-073 as extended).
2020 Q3Third quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →July 1, 2020: as on June 30, 2020, plus the Safer at Home Order of June 30 (AL-024) running to July 31; Jefferson County face-covering order (AL-074); eviction protections had expired June 1 (AL-022).September 30, 2020: state of emergency extended to November 8 (AL-031); Safer at Home Order as amended September 30 (AL-034) running to November 8: statewide mask requirement (¶ 2), employer code (¶ 5), 50 percent occupancy at retail, athletic facilities and entertainment venues, restaurant party-size and spacing rules, close-contact rules, school and child-care rules with student masks from second grade, hospital and nursing-home visitation limited to one caregiver or visitor from October 2; ABC Board 11:00 p.m. alcohol cutoff (AL-028) and enforcement rule (AL-035); Supreme Court orders in force (AL-058, AL-059).
2020 Q4Fourth quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →October 1, 2020: as on September 30, 2020.December 31, 2020: state of emergency extended to March 8, 2021 (AL-039); Safer at Home Order as amended December 9 (AL-040) running to January 22, 2021: mask requirement, employer code, six-foot or partition spacing at retail, athletic facilities and entertainment venues (numerical caps ended November 8), restaurant party-size and spacing rules, close-contact rules, school and child-care rules, hospital visitation one caregiver or visitor; ABC enforcement rule (AL-036) and curbside rule (AL-041); Supreme Court workers'-compensation and remote-testimony orders extended to April 30, 2021 (AL-060).
2021 Q1First quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →January 1, 2021: as on December 31, 2020.March 31, 2021: state of emergency extended to May 7 (AL-044); Safer at Home Order as amended March 4 with technical revisions of March 12 and 22 (AL-045, AL-047) running to April 9 at 5:00 p.m.: mask requirement, mandatory employer code, six-foot or partition rules, close-contact and athletic-facility rules, school rules (three feet), child-care and camp rules, hospitals two caregivers or visitors, quarantine of positive persons; Supreme Court orders (AL-060).
2021 Q2Second quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →April 1, 2021: as on March 31, 2021 (mask mandate and mandatory business rules in force until April 9 at 5:00 p.m.).June 30, 2021: state of emergency in force to July 6 (AL-050); no statewide health order (Safer Apart expired 11:59 p.m. May 31, 2021, AL-051); SB 267 in force (AL-078); Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 10 (workers' compensation) in force to July 29 (AL-061) and the judicial state of emergency in force to July 7 (AL-062); Birmingham Ordinance 21-31 had expired May 24, 2021 by its terms (AL-085).
2021 Q3Third quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →July 1, 2021: state public health emergency in force (terminated 11:59 p.m. July 6, AL-079); judicial state of emergency in force (ended 5:00 p.m. July 7, AL-062); Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 10 (AL-061); SB 267 (AL-078); Birmingham EO 87-20 as revised July 1, 2021 (AL-087); ADPH notifiable-disease rule (AL-081).September 30, 2021: state public health emergency proclaimed August 13, 2021 in force (AL-052; extended October 8 to October 31, AL-053); Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 12 (to October 29) and No. 13 (judicial state of emergency, audio-video rule to November 29) in force (AL-063, AL-064); SB 267 (AL-078); Birmingham EO 88-21 (visitor masks in City facilities, to December 31) and EO 87-20 (revised September 27, to December 31) in force (AL-086, AL-087); Birmingham City Schools mask requirement in force (AL-084).

The end of general restrictions

The day the general business restrictions ended in Alabama, the instrument that ended them, and what the record shows still in force afterward. The end of the general orders is not the end of the record: sector rules, standing duties and the federal layer continue past it.

End of general restrictions

2021-04-09 (5:00 p.m.: mask mandate rescinded and every employer, retail, restaurant, close-contact, athletic-facility and entertainment-venue requirement converted to an 'encouraged' measure); 2021-05-31 (11:59 p.m.: last statewide order expired); 2021-07-06 (11:59 p.m.: state of emergency terminated)

Instrument State Health Officer, Safer Apart Order (amended April 7, 2021) (Ex. AL-049), promulgated by the Governor's supplemental proclamation of April 7, 2021 (Ex. AL-048); the last statewide health order, the Safer Apart Order as amended May 3, 2021 (Ex. AL-051), expired by its terms at 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2021; the state of emergency was terminated by proclamation effective 11:59 p.m. July 6, 2021 (Ex. AL-079).

What remained in force

April 9 to May 31, 2021: the quarantine of every person who tested positive (Safer Apart ¶ 2), senior-center compliance with Department of Senior Services guidelines (¶ 5), hospital, nursing-home and assisted-living visitation rules (¶ 7), the preemption clause (¶ 9), and the state of emergency with its licensure, notarization, remote-meeting and procurement suspensions; Birmingham Ordinance 21-31 (masks in public) to May 24, 2021; Supreme Court Administrative Orders to July 7, 2021; SB 267 from its passage. After July 6, 2021: SB 267; Supreme Court Administrative Orders No. 12 (to October 29, 2021) and No. 13 (August 23 to November 29, 2021); the August 13, 2021 state public health emergency (extended to October 31, 2021); Birmingham EO 88-21 and EO 87-20 (to December 31, 2021); Birmingham City Schools' mask requirement from August 2, 2021; the ADPH notifiable-disease reporting rule for COVID-19.

Preemption of local orders

Alabama never enacted a statute barring local COVID-19 orders during the period, and its State Health Officer orders expressly preserved local power to be more stringent: from March 19, 2020 'the Jefferson and Mobile County Health Officers are authorized, after approval by the State Health Officer, to implement more stringent measures as local circumstances require' (Ex. AL-005 ¶ 9; AL-011 ¶ 11; AL-013 ¶ 17), and from July 15, 2020 'county health officers are authorized, after approval by the State Health Officer, to implement more stringent measures' (Ex. AL-027 ¶ 21). The orders preempted in the other direction: the April 3, 2020 order 'supersedes and preempts any county and municipal orders or ordinances, whenever adopted, that purport to impose less stringent COVID-19-related curfew or quarantine measures' (AL-013 ¶ 17), a clause repeated through March 2021. The July 15, 2020 mask amendment superseded 'all orders previously issued by county health officers concerning COVID-19 mitigation measures, as well as any municipal ordinances concerning the use of facial coverings,' with the proviso that '[i]f this Order's facial-covering requirement is rescinded, however, orders of county health officers and municipal ordinances pertaining to COVID-19 facial coverings may take effect according to their terms' (AL-027 ¶ 21); this displaced the Jefferson County Health Officer's June 26, 2020 order (AL-074) and Birmingham's Ordinance 20-69 series (AL-072, AL-073). The Safer Apart Order of April 7, 2021 superseded 'any municipal ordinance adopted before March 4, 2021, concerning the use of facial coverings' (AL-049 ¶ 9), which left Birmingham's Ordinance 21-31 of April 6, 2021 (AL-085) in force to May 24, 2021. Birmingham's own ordinances adopted the State Health Officer's orders by reference and made their violation a municipal offense (AL-070 § 1(b), § 3: fine up to $500). SB 267 (passed May 17, 2021; Ex. AL-078) barred State and local governments from issuing vaccine passports or conditioning services on immunization and barred every business in the State from refusing service on the basis of immunization status; Executive Order 724 (October 25, 2021, post-period; Ex. AL-080) directed State agencies not to enforce federal vaccination mandates.

Third quarter of 2021

July 1 through September 30, 2021, the last claimable quarter: the instruments the record shows in force in Alabama. An order in force on any day of the quarter is an order in force during it. The quarter nationally →

In force (12)

  • AL-050 / AL-001: state public health emergency (March 13, 2020, as extended May 3, 2021) in force July 1 to 11:59 p.m. July 6, 2021
  • AL-079: proclamation terminating the state of emergency effective 11:59 p.m. July 6, 2021 (the instrument that fixes the end date)
  • AL-052: State of Emergency Proclamation of August 13, 2021 (COVID-19; hospital capacity) in force August 13 through September 30, 2021 and to October 31, 2021 (AL-053)
  • AL-061: Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 10 (workers' compensation settlements) in force to July 29, 2021
  • AL-062: Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 11 (judicial state of emergency ended 5:00 p.m. July 7, 2021; prior COVID orders revoked)
  • AL-063: Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 12 (July 28, 2021) in force to October 29, 2021
  • AL-064: Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 13 (August 20, 2021): judicial state of emergency and audio-video rule effective August 23, 2021 to November 29, 2021
  • AL-078: SB 267 (vaccine passport prohibition; businesses may not refuse service on immunization status) in force from passage and approval in May 2021
  • AL-081: ADPH rule listing COVID-19 as an immediately reportable notifiable disease (emergency rule March 6, 2020; adopted on a permanent basis)
  • AL-086: Birmingham Mayor's Executive Order 88-21 (masks required of all visitors inside City indoor facilities) effective July 30, 2021 to December 31, 2021
  • AL-087: Birmingham Mayor's Executive Order 87-20 (City workforce COVID-19 policy) as revised July 1, July 29 and September 27, 2021, to December 31, 2021
  • AL-084: Birmingham City Schools 2021-22 mask requirement (all students, employees and visitors) from the August 2, 2021 opening

Sector chronology

How the orders reached each kind of business in Alabama, sector by sector, in the order the record gives. Open a sector to read its chronology; every exhibit named opens its record.

Restaurants and bars

No on-premises consumption statewide from 5:00 p.m. March 19, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 7; five counties from March 17, AL-003) to May 11, 2020; from May 11 on-premises service with party size capped at 8, six feet between tables, employee masks and no self-service (AL-020 ¶ 15); ABC curbside alcohol sales authorized from March 18, 2020 (AL-023, AL-041); 11:00 p.m. alcohol cutoff from August 1, 2020 (AL-028); 50 percent occupancy and mask enforcement on licensed premises from September 29, 2020 (AL-035, AL-036); party-size limit removed March 6, 2021 (AL-045); spacing rules became recommendations April 9, 2021 (AL-049).

Retail

Furniture, clothing, jewelry, department, sporting-goods and book/craft/music stores closed from 5:00 p.m. March 28, 2020 (AL-011 ¶ 2.d); essential retailers capped at 50 percent occupancy from April 4 (AL-013 ¶ 6); all retail stores at 50 percent from April 30, 2020 (AL-017 ¶ 6) to November 8, 2020 (AL-038 ¶ 7); six-foot spacing and sanitation rules to April 9, 2021.

Personal care

Barber shops, hair, waxing, threading and nail salons, body art, tanning and massage closed from 5:00 p.m. March 28, 2020 (AL-011 ¶ 2.c) to May 11, 2020; reopened under six-foot, employee-mask, glove and sanitation rules (AL-020 ¶ 7); partition alternative from November 8, 2020 (AL-038); rules became recommendations April 9, 2021 (AL-049).

Fitness and entertainment

Night clubs, bowling alleys, arcades, concert venues, theaters, museums, racetracks, casinos, bingo halls, fitness centers, gyms, spas, yoga/barre/spin studios, spectator sports and shared-equipment sports closed from 5:00 p.m. March 28, 2020 (AL-011 ¶ 2.a-b); athletic facilities reopened May 11 at 50 percent with employee masks and no showers, hot tubs or saunas (AL-020 ¶ 8); entertainment venues reopened May 22 at 50 percent (AL-021 ¶ 9); team sports limited to conditioning until June 15, 2020 (AL-021 ¶ 10); occupancy caps ended November 8, 2020 (AL-038); rules became recommendations April 9, 2021; night clubs treated as restaurants from May 22, 2020.

Hotels and short-term rentals

Never closed; 'hotels and commercial lodging services, and RV parks' listed as essential infrastructure operations (AL-013 ¶ 2.c); subject to the gathering prohibitions (banquets and meetings), the 50 percent occupancy rule for entertainment venues and restaurants they operated, the employer code and the mask requirement; beaches closed March 19 to April 30, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 2; AL-013 ¶ 10) and limited to groups under 10 thereafter (AL-017 ¶ 8).

Offices and telework

March 19, 2020: 'Employers are authorized to advise employees to work from home or maintain flexible work schedules' (AL-005 ¶ 4.a); April 4-30, 2020: leaving home to work permitted only at essential businesses and operations or for 'work-related activities that do not require any regular interaction within six feet of another person' and activities 'to enable people to work or shop remotely from their residences' (AL-013 ¶ 1.e); April 30, 2020 to April 9, 2021: 'all employers shall take reasonable steps, where practicable as work duties permit, to protect their employees by... facilitating remote working arrangements; and minimizing employee travel' (AL-017 ¶ 4; AL-020 ¶ 4; AL-027 ¶ 5); Department of Insurance Bulletin 2020-04 (March 30, 2020): insurance employees 'should seek to work remotely or behind closed doors when possible' (AL-065); April 9, 2021: employer measures 'encouraged' (AL-049 ¶ 3).

Manufacturing

Never closed; 'manufacturing facilities' listed as essential (AL-013 ¶ 2.d) and 'support operations for essential businesses' (¶ 2.u); subject to the essential-business rules (¶ 4), the employer code from April 30, 2020 (AL-017 ¶ 4), the mask requirement in any indoor space open to the public (AL-027 ¶ 2) and the ABC-style hours rules only where licensed; the August 13, 2021 proclamation waived FMCSA hours-of-service rules for emergency freight (AL-052 § VI).

Construction

Never closed; 'construction and construction-related services' listed as essential businesses and operations under the Stay at Home Order (AL-013 ¶ 2.n), subject to the ten-person and six-foot rules for essential businesses (¶ 4) and, from April 30, 2020, the mandatory employer code (AL-017 ¶ 4); permit and inspection offices subject to the public-meetings and open-meetings provisions of the supplemental proclamations (AL-004 § III; AL-012 § IV).

Real estate

Real estate, appraisal and title services listed as essential professional services (AL-013 ¶ 2.l); showings governed by the stay-home command, the ten-person gathering limit and six-foot rule; remote notarization authorized for attorney-supervised notaries March 26, 2020 and for all notaries April 3, 2020 (AL-010 § III; AL-012 § III); eviction and foreclosure enforcement suspended April 3 to June 1, 2020 (AL-014, AL-018 § III, AL-022); courts' in-person proceedings suspended March 16 to May 15, 2020 (AL-054 to AL-058).

Hospitals and long-term care

Nursing-home visitation barred in five counties from March 17, 2020 (AL-003 ¶ 4) and all hospital and nursing-home visitation barred statewide from March 19, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 5); visitors 'limited' from July 3, 2020 (AL-024 ¶ 16); one caregiver or visitor at a time from October 2, 2020 under CMS guidance with posted notice (AL-034 ¶ 17); two from March 6, 2021 (AL-045 ¶ 17); CMS guidance from May 3 to May 31, 2021 (AL-051 ¶ 7); alternative standards of care and emergency-management-worker status from March 13, 2020 (AL-001 § I); health-care licensure, supervision and capacity suspensions April 2, 2020 (AL-012) and August 13 to October 31, 2021 (AL-052, AL-053); EMS destination and pharmacy rules (AL-002, AL-008, AL-009).

Dental and elective health care

All elective dental and medical procedures delayed from March 19, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 6); all dental, medical and surgical procedures postponed except emergencies and treatment necessary to avoid serious harm from 5:00 p.m. March 28, 2020 (AL-011 ¶ 7; AL-013 ¶ 14); Board of Dental Examiners' Alabama Dental Treatment Protocol effective April 3, 2020 (urgent care only; staff screening; PPE) (AL-082); procedures permitted to resume 5:00 p.m. April 30, 2020 subject to State-board and ADPH rules and CMS Phase I guidance (AL-017 ¶ 12); Board of Dental Examiners' Return-to-Practice protocol issued April 29, 2020, revised through February 11, 2021, made a recommendation April 9, 2021, with Board Rule 270-X-2-.15 requiring dentists to follow current CDC guidelines (AL-083).

Schools

K-12 public schools closed at the end of March 18, 2020 by the Governor's oral order of March 13, ratified March 18 (AL-004 § II); all schools, public and private, and colleges closed to in-person instruction at the close of school March 19, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 4; AL-006 ¶ 4); public K-12 schools ordered to complete the 2019-20 year by alternate methods of instruction from April 6, 2020 (AL-010 § I); in-person operation permitted from June 1, 2020 under distancing, sanitation and employee-mask rules (AL-021 ¶ 13); student masks from second grade from July 29, 2020 (AL-030 ¶ 14); three-foot spacing from March 22, 2021 (AL-047 ¶ 14); rules became recommendations April 9, 2021 (AL-049 ¶ 6); no statewide 2021-22 mask order; Birmingham City Schools required masks of all students, employees and visitors from August 2, 2021 (AL-084).

Child care

Preschools and child-care centers closed at the close of business March 19, 2020 except centers serving essential employees' children (AL-005 ¶ 4.b); from March 20, 2020 facilities with 12 or more children in a room closed (AL-006 ¶ 4.b; AL-013 ¶ 12.b) through May 22, 2020; reopened May 23, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. under distancing, sanitation and employee-mask rules (AL-021 ¶ 14); day and overnight camps under rules from May 23, 2020 (¶ 15); rules became recommendations April 9, 2021 (AL-049 ¶ 6).

Worship and gatherings

Gatherings of 25+ prohibited from 5:00 p.m. March 19, 2020 (AL-005 ¶ 1); non-work gatherings of 10+ prohibited from 5:00 p.m. March 28, 2020 (AL-011 ¶ 1), with religious services limited to fewer than 10 persons or drive-in format under the Stay at Home Order (AL-013 ¶ 1.c); from May 11, 2020 gatherings of any size that cannot maintain six feet between households prohibited, 'non-work related gathering' defined to include church services, weddings, funerals, concerts, festivals and sporting events (AL-020 ¶ 3; AL-017 ¶ 3); masks required at outdoor gatherings of 10+ from July 16, 2020 (AL-027 ¶ 2); gathering rule became a recommendation April 9, 2021 (AL-049).

Courts and public offices

Supreme Court of Alabama: all in-person proceedings suspended March 16 to April 16, 2020 (AL-054), extended to April 30 (AL-056) and May 15, 2020 (AL-057); in-person hearings authorized after May 15 at presiding circuit judges' discretion and jury trials suspended until September 14, 2020 (AL-058); workers'-compensation and remote-testimony orders extended to December 31, 2020, April 30, July 29 and October 29, 2021 (AL-059 to AL-061, AL-063); judicial state of emergency ended July 7, 2021 (AL-062) and was re-declared August 20 to November 29, 2021 (AL-064); Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building closed to the public March 19 to June 2, 2020; public bodies authorized to meet remotely and to postpone public hearings from March 18 and April 2, 2020 (AL-004 § III; AL-012 § IV); summonses in lieu of arrest (AL-010 § V); parole hearings cancelled March 2020 (ADPH inventory, not saved).

Travel and quarantine

No statewide travel-quarantine order; every person who tested positive quarantined at home for 14 days from April 4, 2020 (AL-013 ¶ 9), 'for a period of time specified by the State Health Officer' from August 27, 2020 (AL-032 ¶ 3) through May 31, 2021 (AL-051 ¶ 2); employers directed to minimize employee travel April 30, 2020 to April 9, 2021 (AL-017 ¶ 4.g); beaches closed March 19 to April 30, 2020; Birmingham (March 24 to May 15, 2020), Mobile (April 4 to 30, 2020), Tuscaloosa (March 27 to April 11, 2020) and Montgomery (from March 27, 2020) curfews (AL-069 to AL-071, AL-093 to AL-095); the August 13, 2021 proclamation invoked 49 C.F.R. § 390.23 to waive hours-of-service rules for emergency freight (AL-052 § VI).

Face coverings

Birmingham Ordinance 20-69 required masks in public from May 1, 2020 (AL-075; extended by AL-072, AL-073 and later ordinances to July 3, 2020); Jefferson County Health Officer's order required face coverings countywide from 5:00 p.m. June 29, 2020 (AL-074); employee masks required at close-contact providers, gyms and restaurants from May 11, 2020 (AL-020); statewide requirement for 'each person' in indoor public spaces, transportation-service vehicles and outdoor gatherings of 10+ from 5:00 p.m. July 16, 2020 (AL-027 ¶ 2), promulgated with a $500 fine or county jail (AL-026 § I), extended through 5:00 p.m. April 9, 2021 (AL-045, AL-047, AL-048 § I); students from second grade from July 29, 2020 (AL-030); Birmingham Ordinance 21-31 from April 6 to May 24, 2021 (AL-085); Birmingham City facilities from July 30, 2021 (AL-086) and Birmingham City Schools from August 2, 2021 (AL-084).

Vaccination mandates

None issued by the State for health-care workers, State employees or students; SB 267 (passed May 17, 2021) prohibited vaccine passports, conditioning government services on immunization and refusal of service by any business on the basis of immunization status (AL-078); Executive Order 724 of October 25, 2021 (post-period) directed the executive branch not to enforce federal mandates (AL-080).

Standing duties

The statutes, codes and penalty provisions of Alabama that stood before March 2020 and ran through every claimable quarter. They are the reason nothing an employer did under the orders was voluntary. Read the Alabama duties →

Alabama bound its employers through four standing layers of law that existed before March 2020 and ran through every claimable quarter. First, the health code. Ala. Code § 22-2-2(6) gives the State Board of Health power to adopt rules 'for administering the health and quarantine laws of the state, which rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law,' § 22-2-8 makes the State Health Officer the Board's acting executive with the duty to 'take prompt measures to prevent' invading disease, § 22-11A-7 commands every person reported with a notifiable disease to 'conform to or obey the instructions or directions' of the health officers, chapter 22-12 supplies the quarantine power and warrantless arrest for its violation, and § 22-2-14 makes the knowing violation of any Board rule a misdemeanor with each day a separate offense. The State Health Officer's COVID-19 orders were issued under § 22-2-2(4) and adopted as an emergency rule of the Board on March 20, 2020 (Ex. AL-007), so the § 22-2-14 penalty attached from that day, as the Attorney General told every law-enforcement agency on March 21 and April 5, 2020 (Exs. DUT-AL-016, DUT-AL-017). Second, the Emergency Management Act. From July 15, 2020 every Safer at Home, Safer Apart and mask order was promulgated by the Governor under §§ 31-9-6(1) and 31-9-13, which give such orders 'the full force and effect of law,' with the § 31-9-22 penalty of a $500 fine and county jail (Exs. AL-026 and every later proclamation; DUT-AL-011 to DUT-AL-014). Third, the workplace duty. Alabama has no State OSHA plan; 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1) bound every Alabama employer directly, and Ala. Code § 25-1-1 independently requires every employer to 'do everything reasonably necessary to protect the life, health and safety of his employees,' defining safety to include 'conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene' (Exs. DUT-AL-009, DUT-AL-010). Fourth, the liability shield. Act 2021-4 (SB 30), effective February 12, 2021 and retroactive to March 13, 2020, withholds its protection from a covered entity that a claimant shows 'did not reasonably attempt to comply with the then applicable public health guidance,' defined as guidance 'in any proclamation, order, or rule of the Governor, the State Health Officer, or the State Board of Health' (Ex. DUT-AL-015); the Governor's May 8, 2020 proclamation (Ex. AL-019) carried the same condition. The orders themselves wrote operating conditions in the imperative: 'all employers shall take reasonable steps'; 'all retail stores shall comply with the following rules'; the retailer 'shall take reasonable steps to comply with guidelines on sanitation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alabama Department of Public Health'; ABC licensees 'shall abide by the directives of the State Health Officer in all aspects of the operation' (Exs. AL-013, AL-017, AL-020, AL-027, AL-035). Where the State chose a recommendation it said so ('are encouraged,' 'should,' 'strongly recommended': Ex. AL-049 from April 9, 2021; Two courts of the period stated the structure: the Middle District of Alabama held that the Board's rules 'shall have the force of law' and that Alabama law gave the State Health Officer 'the ability to issue orders in response to COVID-19' (Ex. DUT-AL-021), and the Supreme Court of Alabama recited the promulgation of each order under the Emergency Management Act with the § 31-9-22 penalty (Ex. DUT-AL-020). The measures an Alabama employer took to distance, screen, sanitize, mask, telework and reduce occupancy were the means of complying with duties the law imposed; the word 'voluntary' does not describe them.

The question these duties answer

Whether the measures Alabama employers took beyond the words of the emergency orders were 'voluntary' within Notice 2021-20 Q&A-14, or were compelled by standing legal duties that bound employers independent of, and in addition to, the orders already in the Orders Library.

By character

  • 5 Statutory authority
  • 3 Agency position statement
  • 3 Statutory duty
  • 2 Adjudication
  • 2 Order penalty
  • 2 Sanitary code duty
  • 2 Workplace duty
  • 1 Liability shield condition
  • 1 Recommendation only

Exhibits

Ex. DUT-AL-001 Ex. DUT-AL-002 Ex. DUT-AL-003 Ex. DUT-AL-004 Ex. DUT-AL-005 Ex. DUT-AL-006 Ex. DUT-AL-007 Ex. DUT-AL-008 Ex. DUT-AL-009 Ex. DUT-AL-010 Ex. DUT-AL-011 Ex. DUT-AL-012 Ex. DUT-AL-013 Ex. DUT-AL-014 Ex. DUT-AL-015 Ex. DUT-AL-016 Ex. DUT-AL-017 Ex. DUT-AL-018 Ex. DUT-AL-019 Ex. DUT-AL-020 Ex. DUT-AL-021

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On the calendar

Every dated instrument in the Alabama file across the nineteen months from March 2020 through September 2021, in the order it took effect. A bar takes the color of the instrument's first limitation type and runs from its effective month through its end month; a fading edge marks an instrument whose end the record does not date. Point at a bar for its dates; open the bar for the record.

Emergency declaration 22Stay-at-home 6Business closure 15Telework mandate 17Capacity limit 12Gathering cap 22Face-covering requirement 33Travel and quarantine 5Schools and child care 23Health care orders 37Curfew and hours 6Alcohol and bars 24Events and venues 2Courts and public offices 17Workplace rules 33Vaccination or testing 2Quarantine and isolation 20Supply chain 2Other 16

All instruments

Every record in the Alabama file, in the order it took effect. Filter by quarter and by limitation type; sort by any column; open the exhibit ID for the record and the operative words, or the file where The COVID Project holds it.

Showing 94 of 94 instrumentsEvery record that resolves to Alabama in the Library (127) →
ExhibitInstrumentIssuerLevelEffectiveEndQuartersLimitationsSourceFile
Ex. AL-081Emergency Rule 420-4-1, Appendix 1 ER, Alabama Notifiable Diseases/Conditions (COVID-19)COVID-19 and all SARS-CoV-2 laboratory results made immediately reportable notifiable conditionsAlabama Department of Public Health (State Board of Health)Sector regulatorMar. 6, 2020Sept. 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Health care ordersQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 82 KB
Ex. AL-001Proclamation by the Governor: State of Emergency (COVID-19)Proclamation declaring a state public health emergency; alternative standards of careGovernor Kay IveyStateMar. 13, 2020July 6, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationHealth care ordersPrimary source readPDF 559 KB
Ex. AL-002Emergency Order of the State Health Officer for Emergency Medical ServicesEmergency Order for Emergency Medical Services Regarding COVID-19State Health Officer Scott Harris, M.D., M.P.H. (Alabama Department of Public Health)Sector regulatorMar. 16, 2020June 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Health care ordersPrimary source readPDF 39 KB
Ex. AL-054Administrative Order Suspending All In-Person Court Proceedings for the Next Thirty Days (In re: COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Response)Declaration of a state of emergency for the Judicial Branch; suspension of all in-person proceedings in every…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtMar. 16, 2020Apr. 16, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 124 KB
Ex. AL-055Administrative Order No. 2 Pertaining to the Suspension of All In-Person Court ProceedingsClarification: the March 13 order reaches in-person courtroom proceedings only; depositions and mediations are…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtMar. 16, 2020June 30, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 106 KB
Ex. AL-091Order of the Jefferson County Health Officer suspending certain public gatherings (March 16, 2020)First Alabama COVID-19 order: gatherings suspended and restaurants, bars and other establishments closed to…Jefferson County Health Officer Mark E. Wilson, M.D.CountyMar. 16, 2020Mar. 19, 20202020 Q2Business closureGathering capAlcohol and barsConfirmed from a secondary source—
Ex. AL-003Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Blount, Saint Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties)Order suspending gatherings of 25 or more, closing senior centers, private schools and child care, barring…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMar. 17, 2020Mar. 19, 20202020 Q2Business closureGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsPrimary source readPDF 154 KB
Ex. AL-004First Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19)Rescheduling the March 31, 2020 primary runoff; ratifying the closure of all K-12 public schools; Open…Governor Kay IveyStateMar. 18, 2020Mar. 26, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationSchools and child careCourts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 817 KB
Ex. AL-005Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide)Statewide order prohibiting gatherings of 25 or more, closing beaches, senior centers, all schools, colleges…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMar. 19, 2020Mar. 20, 20202020 Q2Business closureTelework mandateGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsPrimary source readPDF 620 KB
Ex. AL-006Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended March 20, 2020Amendment limiting the gathering prohibition to non-work gatherings, directing employers to meet the…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMar. 20, 2020Mar. 27, 20202020 Q2Business closureGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 121 KB
Ex. AL-007Emergency Rule 420-4-1-.13 ER, Statewide Social Distancing Requirements in Response to COVID-19Emergency rule adopting the State Health Officer's statewide order as a rule of the State Board of HealthAlabama Department of Public Health (State Board of Health)StateMar. 20, 2020July 18, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersPrimary source readPDF 430 KB
Ex. AL-067Second Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19)Transportation of emergency equipment, services and supplies: oversize and overweight permits through the…Governor Kay IveyStateMar. 20, 2020Sept. 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Supply chainOtherPrimary source readPDF 587 KB
Ex. AL-098Emergency licensure, supervision, registration and continuing-education rules of the State professional boards (March 20, 2020 to November 13, 2020)Emergency licensure and supervision rules for nurses, physicians, physician assistants, anesthesiologist…Alabama Board of Nursing; Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners and Medical Licensure Commission; Alabama Board of Pharmacy; Alabama Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology; Alabama Board of Massage Therapy; Alabama Board of Chiropractic Examiners; Alabama Board of Court Reporting; Alabama Board of Pardons and ParolesSector regulatorMar. 20, 2020Dec. 31, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4Health care ordersOtherConfirmed from a secondary sourceSource
Ex. AL-008Emergency Rule 420-2-1-.02 ER (Definitions: 'definitive care')Emergency rule permitting EMS provider services to transport patients to urgent-care facilities, physician…Alabama Department of Public HealthSector regulatorMar. 23, 2020July 21, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Health care ordersPrimary source readPDF 982 KB
Ex. AL-068Third Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): State tax obligationsPostponement of the April 15, 2020 due date for individual and corporate income tax, financial institutions…Governor Kay IveyStateMar. 23, 2020July 15, 20202020 Q22020 Q3OtherPrimary source readPDF 584 KB
Ex. AL-069Ordinance No. 20-48, An Ordinance to Establish a 'Shelter in Place Order' for the City of Birmingham during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency24-hour shelter-in-place curfew for all persons in BirminghamCouncil of the City of Birmingham (recommended by Mayor Randall L. Woodfin)CityMar. 24, 2020Apr. 3, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineCurfew and hoursPrimary source readPDF 92 KB
Ex. AL-009Emergency Rule 420-5-10-.16 ER (Pharmacy Services in nursing facilities)Emergency rule permitting a nursing-home administrator or medical director to substitute for the pharmacist's…Alabama Department of Public HealthSector regulatorMar. 25, 2020July 23, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Health care ordersPrimary source readPDF 530 KB
Ex. AL-094Tuscaloosa curfew orders of March 2020 (10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. from March 27; 24-hour curfew from 10:00 p.m. March 29 through April 11, 2020)Tuscaloosa 24-hour curfew: residents to leave home only for essential purposes; all non-essential businesses…Mayor Walt MaddoxCityMar. 27, 2020Apr. 11, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineCurfew and hoursConfirmed from a secondary sourceSource
Ex. AL-011Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended March 27, 2020Non-essential business closures: entertainment venues, athletic facilities, close-contact service providers…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMar. 28, 2020Apr. 17, 20202020 Q2Business closureGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 1.7 MB
Ex. AL-065Bulletin No. 2020-04, Continuity of OperationsInsurers and producers designated essential operations; employees 'should seek to work remotely or behind…Alabama Department of Insurance, Commissioner Jim L. RidlingSector regulatorMar. 30, 2020Mar. 31, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1Business closureTelework mandateWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 105 KB
Ex. AL-066Bulletin No. 2020-05, Cancellation or Non-Renewal Recommendation due to COVID-19 pandemicRecommendation to all insurers to relax premium due dates, extend grace periods, waive late fees, avoid lapse…Alabama Department of Insurance, Commissioner Jim L. RidlingSector regulatorMar. 30, 2020Sept. 30, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Workplace rulesOtherPrimary source readPDF 57 KB
Ex. AL-012Fifth Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19)Health care providers and facilities (licensure, supervision, capacity); remote notarization by all notaries…Governor Kay IveyStateApr. 2, 2020July 6, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Health care ordersCourts and public officesOtherPrimary source readPDF 826 KB
Ex. AL-056Administrative Order No. 5: Extending Orders and Deadlines Concerning the Suspension of In-Person Proceedings until April 30, 2020Extension of the suspension of in-person proceedings to April 30, 2020Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtApr. 2, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 13 KB
Ex. AL-014Sixth Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Protection against evictionsDirection to all law enforcement officers to cease enforcement of orders displacing persons from their…Governor Kay IveyStateApr. 3, 2020May 8, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesOtherPrimary source readPDF 474 KB
Ex. AL-070Ordinance No. 20-50, An Ordinance to Readopt and Amend Ordinance No. 20-48, Establishing a 'Shelter in Place Order'Shelter-in-place curfew readopted and continued to 11:59 p.m. April 30, 2020; all businesses to comply with…Council of the City of Birmingham; approved by Mayor Randall L. WoodfinCityApr. 3, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineSchools and child careCurfew and hoursPrimary source readPDF 1.2 MB
Ex. AL-082Alabama Dental Treatment Protocol Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic (effective April 3, 2020; updated April 7, 2020)Board protocol: all elective dental procedures delayed by order of the State Health Officer; urgent care only…Board of Dental Examiners of AlabamaSector regulatorApr. 3, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Health care ordersWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 355 KB
Ex. AL-013Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended April 3, 2020 (with technical revisions dated April 10, 2020) -- the Stay at Home OrderStay at Home OrderState Health Officer Scott Harris (announced by Governor Ivey)StateApr. 4, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 160 KB
Ex. AL-093City of Mobile stay-at-home order and curfew (announced April 3, 2020)Mobile stay-at-home order with a 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew, effective 10:00 p.m. April 4, 2020 through…Mayor Sandy StimpsonCityApr. 4, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homeTravel and quarantineCurfew and hoursConfirmed from a secondary sourceSource
Ex. AL-010Fourth Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (Mar. 26, 2020), sec. III; AL-012 (Fifth Supplemental, Apr. 2, 2020)Alternative methods of instruction for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year; EMS licensure extension; remote…Governor Kay IveyStateApr. 6, 2020Jan. 1, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Schools and child careHealth care ordersCourts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 600 KB
Ex. AL-015Explanation of April 10, 2020 Technical Revisions to the Stay at Home OrderADPH explanation of the technical revisions made to the April 3, 2020 orderAlabama Department of Public HealthStateApr. 10, 2020Apr. 30, 20202020 Q2Stay-at-homePrimary source readPDF 110 KB
Ex. AL-097Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamations of April 13, June 9, August 21 and December 11, 2020 and March 22, 2021Resumption of pardon and parole hearings (Apr. 13, 2020); June 9, 2020 proclamation (subject not verified)…Governor Kay IveyStateApr. 13, 2020June 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationOtherConfirmed from a secondary sourceSource
Ex. AL-016Emergency Order of the State Health Officer: Non-Congregate ShelteringOrder directing governmental and nonprofit shelter operators to provide non-congregate sheltering to persons…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateApr. 16, 2020June 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Health care ordersQuarantine and isolationOtherPrimary source readPDF 123 KB
Ex. AL-017Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended April 28, 2020 -- the Safer at Home OrderSafer at Home Order: mandatory employer and business protections, retail at 50 percent, higher-risk businesses…State Health Officer Scott Harris (announced by Governor Ivey April 28, 2020)StateApr. 30, 2020May 15, 20202020 Q2Business closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 147 KB
Ex. AL-071Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 20-48, as amended by Ordinance No. 20-50, to modify the 'Shelter in Place Order' to an overnight curfew (the 'Safer in Birmingham Curfew')Overnight public-safety curfew 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily; continued to 11:59 p.m. May 15, 2020; State…Council of the City of Birmingham (recommended and submitted by Mayor Woodfin)CityApr. 30, 2020May 15, 20202020 Q2Business closureTravel and quarantineCurfew and hoursPrimary source readPDF 103 KB
Ex. AL-083Dental Protocol for Return to Practice in Response to COVID-19 Mandates (Board opinion issued April 29, 2020; revised May 7, May 30 and June 11, 2020, February 11, 2021 and April 9, 2021)Return-to-practice protocol: teledentistry and pre-visit screening, temperature checks, masked escort, PPE and…Board of Dental Examiners of AlabamaSector regulatorApr. 30, 2020Sept. 30, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Health care ordersWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 167 KB
Ex. AL-057Administrative Order No. 6: Extending Orders and Deadlines Concerning the Suspension of In-Person Proceedings through May 15, 2020Extension of the suspension of in-person proceedings through May 15, 2020, following the Safer at Home OrderSupreme Court of AlabamaCourtMay 1, 2020May 15, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 45 KB
Ex. AL-075Ordinance No. 20-69 (as introduced April 28, 2020), An Ordinance to Require Wearing Masks in Public in the City of Birmingham during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and RecoveryMasks required in public places for persons over two from May 1, 2020; businesses to ensure compliance; fine…Council of the City of Birmingham (recommended and submitted by Mayor Woodfin)CityMay 1, 2020May 5, 20202020 Q2Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 108 KB
Ex. AL-088Human Resources Policy: Face Covering Protocol (effective May 1, 2020; revised September 30, 2020)All City employees to wear face coverings inside any City facility or worksite and when within six feet of…City of Birmingham, Department of Human ResourcesCityMay 1, 2020Mar. 31, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 600 KB
Ex. AL-072Ordinance No. 20-72, An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 20-69, Requiring that Face Coverings or Masks Be Worn in Public in the City of BirminghamPublic mask requirement continued to 11:59 p.m. May 15, 2020; businesses to ensure compliance by employees and…Council of the City of BirminghamCityMay 5, 2020May 15, 20202020 Q2Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 112 KB
Ex. AL-018Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): rural electric cooperatives; July 14, 2020 runoff election; protection against evictions; extension of emergencyExtension of the state of emergency for sixty days (May 12 to July 11, 2020); eviction protection limited to…Governor Kay IveyStateMay 8, 2020July 11, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Emergency declarationOtherPrimary source readPDF 596 KB
Ex. AL-019Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Liability protections for businesses and health care providersLiability protections for businesses, health care providers and other covered entities reopening under the…Governor Kay IveyStateMay 8, 2020Mar. 31, 20212020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1OtherPrimary source readPDF 871 KB
Ex. AL-020Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended May 8, 2020 (Safer at Home)Reopening of restaurants (party size 8, six feet between tables, employee masks, no self-service)…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMay 11, 2020May 22, 20202020 Q2Business closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 151 KB
Ex. AL-058Administrative Order No. 7: Resumption of In-Person Hearings Authorized after May 15, 2020, and Continued Suspension of Jury Trials until September 14, 2020In-person hearings may resume after May 15, 2020 at the discretion of each presiding circuit judge under the…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtMay 16, 2020Sept. 14, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 21 KB
Ex. AL-076Mayor's Executive Order No. 87-20, Policy: Temporary Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (original March 16, 2020; revised April 10, May 13, June 15 and July 27, 2020)City workforce COVID-19 policy: daily self-certification of no symptoms, COVID-19 related absences, essential…Mayor Randall L. WoodfinCityMay 16, 2020Dec. 31, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4Telework mandateWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 3.8 MB
Ex. AL-073Ordinance No. 20-83, An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 20-69, as amended by Ordinance No. 20-72 and Ordinance No. 20-76, Requiring that Face Coverings or Masks Be Worn in PublicPublic mask requirement continued to 11:59 p.m. May 29, 2020 (subsequently extended to July 3, 2020)Council of the City of BirminghamCityMay 19, 2020May 29, 20202020 Q2Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 117 KB
Ex. AL-022Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Protection against evictionsEviction and foreclosure protections to expire at 12:00 a.m. on June 1, 2020Governor Kay IveyStateMay 21, 2020June 1, 20202020 Q2Courts and public officesOtherPrimary source readPDF 564 KB
Ex. AL-021Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended May 21, 2020 (Safer at Home)Entertainment venues reopen at 50 percent May 22 at 5:00 p.m.; team athletics limited to conditioning until…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateMay 22, 2020July 3, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 158 KB
Ex. AL-077Order of the Jefferson County Health Officer adopting the State Health Officer's Order Suspending Certain Public Gatherings but retaining limitations on entertainment venues until June 6, 2020 (Spanish-language version)Jefferson County adopts the May 21, 2020 statewide order but keeps entertainment venues closed in the county…Jefferson County Health Officer Mark E. Wilson, M.D.CountyMay 22, 2020July 3, 20202020 Q2Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementEvents and venuesWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 129 KB
Ex. AL-074Order of the Jefferson County Health Officer Requiring the Wearing of Face Coverings in Public PlacesCountywide face-covering order: indoor public spaces of businesses and venues, public transportation and…Jefferson County Health Officer Mark E. Wilson, M.D. (Jefferson County Department of Health), with the approval of the State Health OfficerCountyJune 29, 2020July 16, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 123 KB
Ex. AL-025Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): remote meetings of nonprofit corporations; extending the public health emergencyExtension of the state of emergency from July 11 to September 9, 2020; remote member meetings for nonprofit…Governor Kay IveyStateJuly 2, 2020Sept. 9, 20202020 Q3Emergency declarationOtherPrimary source readPDF 859 KB
Ex. AL-024Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended June 30, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension of the Safer at Home Order to July 31, 2020; hospital and long-term care visitation 'limited' from…State Health Officer Scott HarrisStateJuly 3, 2020July 31, 20202020 Q3Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 157 KB
Ex. AL-023Emergency Rule 20-X-6-.19, Emergency Curbside Sales Authorization (readopted)Emergency amendment to ABC Rule 20-X-6-.19 authorizing on-premises licensees to sell sealed alcoholic…Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardSector regulatorJuly 16, 2020Sept. 15, 20202020 Q3Alcohol and barsPrimary source readPDF 269 KB
Ex. AL-026Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Requiring masks in the Safer at Home health orderProclamation adding the statewide mask requirement and promulgating the State Health Officer's order as an…Governor Kay IveyStateJuly 16, 2020Apr. 9, 20212020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.0 MB
Ex. AL-027Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended July 15, 2020 (Safer at Home; statewide mask order)Statewide facial-covering requirement; employer code adds 'encouraging use of masks'; preemption of county…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateJuly 16, 2020July 31, 20202020 Q3Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 163 KB
Ex. AL-029Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home health orderPromulgation of the July 29, 2020 amended order (to August 31, 2020)Governor Kay IveyStateJuly 29, 2020Aug. 31, 20202020 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.0 MB
Ex. AL-030Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended July 29, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension to August 31, 2020; masks required of students in second grade and above; children six and under or…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateJuly 29, 2020Aug. 31, 20202020 Q3Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 181 KB
Ex. AL-028Emergency Rule 20-X-6-.20ER, Emergency Hours of OperationEmergency order requiring all on-premises ABC licensees to cease alcohol service and sales between 11:00 p.m.…Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardSector regulatorAug. 1, 2020Nov. 29, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Curfew and hoursAlcohol and barsPrimary source readPDF 221 KB
Ex. AL-059Administrative Order No. 8: Extending Orders Pertaining to Workers' Compensation CasesChief Justice's March 18, 2020 workers'-compensation order and March 24, 2020 remote-testimony order extended…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtAug. 14, 2020Dec. 31, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 15 KB
Ex. AL-031Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order and the public health emergencyPromulgation of the August 27, 2020 amended order (to October 2, 2020); extension of the emergency from…Governor Kay IveyStateAug. 27, 2020Nov. 8, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.3 MB
Ex. AL-032Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended August 27, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension to October 2, 2020; restaurant paragraph extended to all food service establishments and retail food…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateAug. 31, 2020Oct. 2, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 162 KB
Ex. AL-035Emergency Rule 20-X-6-.21ER, Enforcement of State Health Officer Orders on ABC Licensed PremisesEmergency order binding every on-premises licensee to the State Health Officer's directives, 50 percent…Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardSector regulatorSept. 29, 2020Oct. 29, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Capacity limitFace-covering requirementAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 253 KB
Ex. AL-033Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order; election administration; liability protectionsPromulgation of the September 30, 2020 amended order (to November 8, 2020); remote poll-worker training…Governor Kay IveyStateSept. 30, 2020Nov. 8, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementOtherPrimary source readPDF 3.3 MB
Ex. AL-034Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended September 30, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension to November 8, 2020; hospital and long-term care visitation limited to one caregiver or visitor at a…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateOct. 2, 2020Nov. 8, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 170 KB
Ex. AL-036Emergency Rule 20-X-6-.21ER, Enforcement of State Health Officer Orders on ABC Licensed Premises (readopted)Readoption of the enforcement rule effective October 29, 2020Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardSector regulatorOct. 29, 2020Feb. 26, 20212020 Q42021 Q1Capacity limitFace-covering requirementAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 271 KB
Ex. AL-037Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order and the public health emergencyPromulgation of the November 5, 2020 amended order (to December 11, 2020); extension of the emergency from…Governor Kay IveyStateNov. 5, 2020Jan. 7, 20212020 Q42021 Q1Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.4 MB
Ex. AL-038Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended November 5, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension to December 11, 2020; 50 percent occupancy caps at retail, athletic facilities and entertainment…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateNov. 8, 2020Dec. 11, 20202020 Q4Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 170 KB
Ex. AL-039Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order and the public health emergency; EMS licensure extension endsPromulgation of the December 9, 2020 amended order (to January 22, 2021); extension of the emergency from…Governor Kay IveyStateDec. 9, 2020Mar. 8, 20212020 Q42021 Q1Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersPrimary source readPDF 3.4 MB
Ex. AL-040Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended December 9, 2020 (Safer at Home)Extension of the mask mandate and all Safer at Home rules to January 22, 2021 (the winter re-tightening by…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateDec. 9, 2020Jan. 22, 20212020 Q42021 Q1Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 169 KB
Ex. AL-041Emergency Rule 20-X-6-.19ER, Emergency Curbside Sales Authorization (amended and readopted)Readoption of the curbside-sales authorization for restaurant and retail liquor licensees (375 ml spirits, two…Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardSector regulatorDec. 14, 2020Apr. 13, 20212020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Alcohol and barsPrimary source readPDF 320 KB
Ex. AL-060Administrative Order No. 9: Extending Orders Pertaining to Workers' Compensation Cases and Remote TestimonyMarch 18 and March 24, 2020 orders extended to April 30, 2021Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtDec. 21, 2020Apr. 30, 20212020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 47 KB
Ex. AL-042Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order; administration of municipal and State electionsPromulgation of the January 21, 2021 amended order (to March 5, 2021)Governor Kay IveyStateJan. 21, 2021Mar. 5, 20212021 Q1Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementOtherPrimary source readPDF 3.3 MB
Ex. AL-043Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended January 21, 2021 (Safer at Home)Extension of the mask mandate and all Safer at Home rules to March 5, 2021State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateJan. 21, 2021Mar. 5, 20212021 Q1Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 169 KB
Ex. AL-044Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the Safer at Home order and the public health emergencyPromulgation of the March 4, 2021 amended order (to April 9, 2021); extension of the emergency from March 8 to…Governor Kay IveyStateMar. 4, 2021May 7, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.4 MB
Ex. AL-045Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended March 4, 2021 (with technical revisions dated March 12, 2021) (Safer at Home)Final Safer at Home order: mask mandate and employer code extended to April 9, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.; restaurant…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateMar. 6, 2021Apr. 9, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 170 KB
Ex. AL-046Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Making technical revisions to the statewide Safer at Home health orderPromulgation of the March 12, 2021 technical revisions (order to April 9, 2021)Governor Kay IveyStateMar. 12, 2021Apr. 9, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source readPDF 3.4 MB
Ex. AL-047Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended March 4, 2021 (with technical revisions dated March 22, 2021) (Safer at Home)Technical revision: elementary, middle and high schools to maintain three feet between students; order to…State Health Officer Scott Harris.StateMar. 22, 2021Apr. 9, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 234 KB
Ex. AL-085Ordinance No. 21-31, An Ordinance to Require Wearing Face Coverings or Masks in Public [in the City of Birmingham]Municipal mask requirement re-enacted after the State's expiry, for persons over six in public places, in…Council of the City of Birmingham (Council President William Parker); approved by Mayor WoodfinCityApr. 6, 2021May 24, 20212021 Q2Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 157 KB
Ex. AL-048Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Rescinding the mask requirement and adopting the statewide Safer Apart health orderPromulgation of the Safer Apart Order effective April 9, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. (to May 5, 2021); mask requirement…Governor Kay IveyStateApr. 9, 2021May 5, 20212021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 1.5 MB
Ex. AL-049Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended April 7, 2021 -- the Safer Apart OrderSafer Apart Order: employer and business protections 'encouraged'; quarantine of positive persons…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateApr. 9, 2021May 5, 20212021 Q2Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 141 KB
Ex. AL-061Administrative Order No. 10: Extending Orders Pertaining to Workers' Compensation CasesMarch 18, 2020 workers'-compensation order extended to July 29, 2021Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtApr. 28, 2021July 29, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 251 KB
Ex. AL-050Twenty-seventh Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19): Extending the statewide Safer Apart health order and the public health emergencyPromulgation of the May 3, 2021 amended Safer Apart Order (to May 31, 2021); extension of the emergency from…Governor Kay IveyStateMay 3, 2021July 6, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 1.2 MB
Ex. AL-051Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Applicable Statewide), Amended May 3, 2021 (Safer Apart)Final statewide health order: Safer Apart extended to 11:59 p.m. May 31, 2021; hospital and long-term care…State Health Officer Scott Harris; promulgated by Governor IveyStateMay 3, 2021May 31, 20212021 Q2Health care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source readPDF 185 KB
Ex. AL-078SB 267 (Enrolled), An Act relating to immunizations; to prohibit the issuance of vaccine passports by government entities; to prohibit government entities from requiring an individual to receive an immunization as a condition for government services; to prohibit institutions of education from requiring additional vaccines; and to prohibit businesses from refusing service based on immunization statusVaccine-passport prohibition (commonly cited as Act 2021-493)Alabama Legislature (SB 267, 2021 Regular Session, by Senator Orr); approved by Governor IveyStateMay 24, 2021Sept. 30, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Vaccination or testingOtherPrimary source readPDF 29 KB
Ex. AL-079Proclamation by the Governor terminating the COVID-19 state of emergencyTermination of the state of emergency proclaimed March 13, 2020, effective 11:59 p.m. C.S.T. July 6, 2021Governor Kay IveyStateJuly 6, 2021Sept. 30, 20212021 Q3Emergency declarationPrimary source readPDF 449 KB
Ex. AL-062Administrative Order No. 11: Revoking Previous Administrative Orders Related to COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency ResponseJudicial state of emergency ends at 5:00 p.m. July 7, 2021; all prior COVID-19 administrative orders revoked…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtJuly 7, 2021Sept. 30, 20212021 Q3Emergency declarationCourts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 73 KB
Ex. AL-063Administrative Order No. 12: Extending Orders Pertaining to Workers' Compensation CasesMarch 18, 2020 workers'-compensation order extended to October 29, 2021Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtJuly 28, 2021Oct. 29, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 68 KB
Ex. AL-086Mayor's Executive Order No. 88-21, Temporary Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency -- City Facilities (original July 30, 2021; revised September 29, 2021)Face coverings required of all visitors inside City of Birmingham indoor facilities (City Hall, precincts…Mayor Randall L. WoodfinCityJuly 30, 2021Dec. 31, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 53 KB
Ex. AL-0842021-2022 Opening of Schools Guide, Mask Mandate Update (July 27, 2021)All students, employees and visitors must wear masks in Birmingham City Schools schools and facilities for the…Birmingham City Schools, Superintendent Mark A. SullivanCityAug. 2, 2021Sept. 30, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child carePrimary source readPDF 1.4 MB
Ex. AL-052Proclamation by the Governor: State of Emergency (COVID-19), August 13, 2021New state public health emergency for COVID-19 (Delta surge): health-care workforce and hospital capacity…Governor Kay IveyStateAug. 13, 2021Oct. 8, 20212021 Q3Emergency declarationHealth care ordersSupply chainPrimary source readPDF 939 KB
Ex. AL-064Administrative Order No. 13: Declaring a Temporary State of Emergency and Authorizing the Use of Audio/Video Technologies in Place of In-Person ProceedingsSecond judicial state of emergency (Delta wave); rules impeding audio-video proceedings superseded from August…Supreme Court of AlabamaCourtAug. 23, 2021Nov. 29, 20212021 Q3Emergency declarationCourts and public officesPrimary source readPDF 70 KB
Ex. AL-087Mayor's Executive Order No. 87-20, Policy: Temporary Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (revised September 27, 2021; prior revisions July 29, July 1 and April 15, 2021, December 31, September 30, July 27, June 15, May 13 and April 10, 2020; original March 16, 2020)City workforce COVID-19 policy continued to December 31, 2021: symptom self-certification on reporting to…Mayor Randall L. WoodfinCitySept. 27, 2021Dec. 31, 20212021 Q3Workplace rulesPrimary source readPDF 360 KB
Ex. AL-053Proclamation by the Governor extending the August 13, 2021 state public health emergencyExtension of the COVID-19 state public health emergency through 11:59 p.m. October 31, 2021 (post-period)Governor Kay IveyStateOct. 8, 2021Oct. 31, 2021Emergency declarationHealth care ordersPrimary source readPDF 281 KB
Ex. AL-080Executive Order No. 724, Combating Overreaching COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates (post-period)Direction to executive-branch agencies to cooperate with the Attorney General's challenges to federal…Governor Kay IveyStateOct. 25, 2021not datedVaccination or testingOtherPrimary source readPDF 451 KB
Ex. AL-092Orders of the Mobile County Health Officer concerning COVID-19 mitigation measures (March 2020)Mobile County health-officer orders superseded by the statewide ordersMobile County Health Officer (Mobile County Health Department)County—June 30, 20202020 Q2Business closureGathering capConfirmed from a secondary source—

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