{"id":"DUT-AR-014","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Asa Hutchinson","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 12-75-101 et seq.; public health emergency declared by EO 20-03 and extended by EO 20-25","instrument":"Executive Order 20-35","title":"Executive Order Pursuant to the Public Health Emergency Concerning COVID-19, as Declared in Executive Order 20-03 and Extended by Executive Order 20-25, for the Purpose of Clarifying Workers\u0027 Compensation Law","dateIssued":"2020-06-15","effective":"2020-06-15 (applies to claims filed after execution; incorporated in EO 20-37 and every renewal)","end":"2021-05-30 (expires with the emergency; par. 6)","startDate":"2020-06-15","endDate":"2021-05-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","COND"],"addressees":["employers; employees"],"clause":"For the purposes of defining \u0022occupational disease\u0022 as used in the Workers\u0027 Compensation Law, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)... shall be established as an occupational disease... (5) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)... shall be an exception to the prohibition in Ark. Code Ann. 11-9-601(e)(3) on compensation for ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is exposed.","enforcement":"None (defines compensability under the Workers\u0027 Compensation Law, 11-9-101 et seq.)","functions":[],"notes":"Made COVID-19 contracted in the course of employment a compensable occupational disease for every Arkansas employer for the life of the emergency, removed the \u0027ordinary disease of life\u0027 bar, and provided that requiring an employee to work with knowledge of possible or likely exposure \u0027is not intentional conduct that would remove the employer from the protections of the Workers\u0027 Compensation Law\u0027 (par. 2), so that workplace transmission became an insured employer liability whose management the workplace protocols served.","sourceUrl":"https://governor.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/executiveOrders/EO_20-35.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200618032439/https://governor.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/executiveOrders/EO_20-35.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":217640,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AR","url":"/library/DUT-AR-014","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AR-014","citation":"Governor Asa Hutchinson, Executive Order 20-35 (June 15, 2020) (Ex. DUT-AR-014)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-007","AR-014"]}