{"id":"DUT-LA-017","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","state":"LA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes)","authority":"La. Const. art. III; Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act, R.S. 29:760 et seq. (Acts 2003, No. 1206)","instrument":"La. R.S. 29:761 (Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act; purposes)","title":"Legislative findings and purposes of the Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act: \u0027the government must do all that is reasonable and necessary to protect the health and safety of its citizens,\u0027 and \u0027the state must have the ability to respond, rapidly and effectively, to potential or actual public health emergencies\u0027","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMER"],"addressees":["the State and its officers (as the duty-holder); persons generally (as the subjects of the powers the Act confers)"],"clause":"Because the government must do all that is reasonable and necessary to protect the health and safety of its citizens; because new and emerging dangers, including emergent and resurgent infectious diseases... pose serious and immediate threats;... the state must have the ability to respond, rapidly and effectively, to potential or actual public health emergencies.","enforcement":"n/a (purposes section); the Act\u0027s orders are enforced through R.S. 29:724(E)","functions":[],"notes":"States the Legislature\u0027s own finding that government \u0027must do all that is reasonable and necessary to protect the health and safety of its citizens\u0027 against \u0027emergent and resurgent infectious diseases\u0027; it is the premise the Governor recited in 137 JBE 2021 (Ex. LA-036, first recital) when re-imposing the statewide indoor face-covering requirement in August 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=207669","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":260006,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-LA","url":"/library/DUT-LA-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-LA-017","citation":"Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes), La. R.S. 29:761 (Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act; purposes) (standing) (Ex. DUT-LA-017)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["LA-036"]}