{"id":"AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of November 8, 2020) as applied to the Utah System of Higher Education\u0027s eight public institutions; State level","state":"UT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED","eco":"","issuer":"Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of Nov. 8, 2020, as updated Nov. 23, 2020); recited by the Utah System of Higher Education","authority":"Utah Code s. 26-1-30; Executive Order 2020-73","instrument":"USHE release, \u0027Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Utah Department of Health issue weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for USHE students\u0027 (November 9, 2020), quoting the State Public Health Order\u0027s \u0027Restrictions on institutions of higher education\u0027","title":"State public health order requiring every public institution of higher education to test each student age 18 or older who lives on campus or attends at least one in-person class, weekly (reduced Nov. 23, 2020 to once every fourteen days), no later than January 1, 2021","dateIssued":"2020-11-09","effective":"2020-11-08 (order); testing required \u0027as soon as possible, but no later than January 1, 2021\u0027","end":"Continued into 2021 under successor State Public Health Orders; end date to be verified in the UT State file (UT-020, UT-036, UT-037, UT-044 govern schools)","startDate":"2020-11-08","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["HC","EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["public degree-granting institutions of higher education (Utah Code s. 53B-1-102(1)(a))","private institutions with more than 10,000 enrolled students residing in Utah","students age 18 and older living on campus or attending in-person classes"],"clause":"The public health order states: Restrictions on institutions of higher education. a. For the purposes of this Order, an institution of higher education, including a public or private degree-granting institution or technical college, is considered to be a business subject to Section (5). b. Beginning as soon as possible, but no later than January 1, 2021, the following institutions of higher education shall require each individual age 18 years or older who is enrolled as a student of the institution of higher education and who lives in on-campus housing or attends at least one in-person class provided by the institution of higher education to obtain a diagnostic test approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to determine current COVID-19 infection at least once every fourteen days: i. a public degree-granting institution of higher education identified in Utah Code s. 53B-1-102(1)(a); and ii. a private degree-granting institution of higher education that has more than 10,000 enrolled students residing in Utah.","enforcement":"Utah Code s. 26-23-6 (violation of Department of Health orders a class B misdemeanor); the order\u0027s classification of institutions as businesses subject to its business provisions","functions":["IN in-person instruction conditioned on student testing","CP campus housing conditioned on testing","HC testing operations imposed on campuses","WF campus workforce","CB students"],"notes":"One of the few State orders that made student testing a condition of in-person attendance and campus residence; the USHE release quotes the order\u0027s operative text and records the Nov. 23, 2020 amendment","sourceUrl":"https://ushe.edu/gov-gary-r-herbert-and-utah-department-of-health-issue-weekly-covid-19-testing-requirement-for-ushe-students/","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":548851,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED","url":"/library/AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046","citation":"Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of Nov. 8, 2020, as updated Nov. 23, 2020); recited by the Utah System of Higher Education, USHE release, \u0027Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Utah Department of Health issue weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for USHE students\u0027 (November 9, 2020), quoting the State Public Health Order\u0027s \u0027Restrictions on institutions of higher education\u0027 (Nov. 9, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046)","stateName":"Utah","related":["UT-020","UT-036","UT-037","UT-044"]}