{"id":"SEC-02-071","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Rhode Island","state":"RI","metro":"","industry":"02","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Rhode Island Department of Health","authority":"R.I. Gen. Laws 23-1-1 et seq.; 23-17; 42-35 (emergency rulemaking)","instrument":"216-RICR-20-15-8, Requirement for Immunization Against COVID-19 for All Workers in Licensed Health Care Facilities and Other Practicing Health Care Providers (emergency amendment)","title":"Health care worker COVID-19 immunization requirement","dateIssued":"2021-08-17","effective":"2021-08-17 (compliance Oct. 1, 2021); effective to Feb. 10, 2022 as amended","end":"2022","startDate":"2021-08-17","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["VAX","HC","EMP"],"addressees":["all workers in licensed health care facilities; all licensed health care providers including physicians, dentists and nurses in private practice"],"clause":"By October 1, 2021, all health care workers and health care providers must be vaccinated, subject to a medical exemption... \u0027health care provider\u0027 means any person licensed by the Department to provide or otherwise lawfully providing health care services (as read on the Secretary of State\u0027s regulations site)","enforcement":"R.I. Gen. Laws 23-1-25; licensing discipline","functions":["HR","WF","CL"],"notes":"Reaches private practitioners by licensure.","sourceUrl":"https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/216-20-15-8","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210908104255/https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/216-20-15-8","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":197384,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-02","url":"/library/SEC-02-071","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-02-071","citation":"Rhode Island Department of Health, 216-RICR-20-15-8, Requirement for Immunization Against COVID-19 for All Workers in Licensed Health Care Facilities and Other Practicing Health Care Providers (emergency amendment) (Aug. 17, 2021) (Ex. SEC-02-071)","stateName":"Rhode Island","related":["SEC-04-053"]}