{"id":"LA-004","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","state":"LA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor John Bel Edwards","authority":"La. R.S. 29:721 et seq.; La. R.S. 29:766","instrument":"Proclamation 32 JBE 2020","title":"Additional Measures for COVID-19 - Public Health Emergency (school testing and attendance suspensions; Public Bid Law; telehealth; postsecondary online instruction; driving schools)","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-19","end":"2020-04-13 (state of emergency term; school-year suspensions for the entire 2019-2020 year)","startDate":"2020-03-19","endDate":"2020-04-13","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SCH","HC","CLOSE","OTHER"],"addressees":["BESE and public and nonpublic schools","health care licensing boards and providers","public postsecondary and proprietary schools","driving schools","State agencies (Public Bid Law)"],"clause":"all Public Post-secondary institutions and proprietary schools within the state of Louisiana that are licensed by the Louisiana Board of Regents shall be allowed to substitute in-person clinical and classroom instruction with online and lab simulations for enrolled students for the duration of the declared emergency.... All driving schools in the State of Louisiana shall close for in class instruction until April 13, 2020.... The provisions of La. R.S. 17:221 that mandate every person having control or charge of a child to send that child to a public or nonpublic school are hereby suspended for the entirety of the 2019-2020 school year.","enforcement":"La. R.S. 29:724(E)","functions":["IN in-person instruction (postsecondary to online)","TM telehealth (rule suspension)","SC Public Bid Law deadlines and capital outlay inspections suspended","CL driving schools closed"],"notes":"Section 3 suspends La. R.S. 40:1223.4 telehealth rulemaking requirements and directs boards to permit telehealth; Section 7 relaxes clinical laboratory personnel licensing for COVID-19 testing; Section 5 relaxes ambulance staffing.","sourceUrl":"https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/Proclamations/2020/modified/32-JBE-2020-Public-Health-Emergency-COVID.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1607311,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"LA","url":"/library/LA-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/LA-004","citation":"Governor John Bel Edwards, Proclamation 32 JBE 2020 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. LA-004)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["LA-003","LA-005","LA-002","LA-001","LA-006","LA-007","LA-008","LA-009","LA-010","LA-011","LA-012"]}