{"id":"SEC-15-049","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"15","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"MCL 30.401-.421; MCL 10.31-.33; Child Care Organizations Act, 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111 et seq. (suspended in part)","instrument":"Executive Order 2020-16","title":"Expanding child care access during the COVID-19 emergency (disaster relief child care centers)","dateIssued":"2020-03-18","effective":"Immediately through April 15, 2020 (extended by EO 2020-51 and successors)","end":"Successor orders through the 2020 emergency","startDate":"2020-04-15","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SCH","OTHER"],"addressees":["child care organizations","employers","school districts and nonpublic schools","LARA"],"clause":"2. Effective immediately and continuing through April 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm, strict compliance with subsection (2) of section 5m of the Child Care Organizations Act... is suspended, as follows: (a) An employer may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center without a license from LARA. (b) A school district or a nonpublic school may establish and maintain a disaster relief child care center in a school building without a license from LARA. 3. LARA must issue rules and/or orders governing disaster relief child care centers.... 4.... disaster relief child care centers may operate in any school facilities operated by a school district or nonpublic school that are closed...","enforcement":"MCL 10.33; MCL 30.405(3)","functions":["EC","WF","HR","OP"],"notes":"The State\u0027s answer to the workforce problem its own school closure created: unlicensed disaster relief child care for the children of essential workers, under LARA emergency rules, in closed school buildings.","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-16.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":251654,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-15","url":"/library/SEC-15-049","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-15-049","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-16 (Mar. 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-049)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["SEC-15-048","SEC-15-051","SEC-15-052"]}