The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of November 8, 2020) as applied to the Utah System of Higher Education's eight public institutions; State level · Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Utah Code s. 26-1-30; Executive Order 2020-73
- Issued
- 2020-11-09 Nov. 9, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-08 (order); testing required 'as soon as possible, but no later than January 1, 2021' (read as 2020-11-08)
- End
- Continued into 2021 under successor State Public Health Orders; end date to be verified in the UT State file (UT-020, UT-036, UT-037, UT-044 govern schools) (read as 2021-03-31)
- In force
- Nov. 8, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- public degree-granting institutions of higher education (Utah Code s. 53B-1-102(1)(a))
- private institutions with more than 10,000 enrolled students residing in Utah
- students age 18 and older living on campus or attending in-person classes
- Functions reached
- IN in-person instruction conditioned on student testing
- CP campus housing conditioned on testing
- HC testing operations imposed on campuses
- WF campus workforce
- CB students
- Collection
- State education and higher-education authorities AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED
Operative words
The public health order states: Restrictions on institutions of higher education. a. For the purposes of this Order, an institution of higher education, including a public or private degree-granting institution or technical college, is considered to be a business subject to Section (5). b. Beginning as soon as possible, but no later than January 1, 2021, the following institutions of higher education shall require each individual age 18 years or older who is enrolled as a student of the institution of higher education and who lives in on-campus housing or attends at least one in-person class provided by the institution of higher education to obtain a diagnostic test approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to determine current COVID-19 infection at least once every fourteen days: i. a public degree-granting institution of higher education identified in Utah Code s. 53B-1-102(1)(a); and ii. a private degree-granting institution of higher education that has more than 10,000 enrolled students residing in Utah.
Enforcement
Utah Code s. 26-23-6 (violation of Department of Health orders a class B misdemeanor); the order's classification of institutions as businesses subject to its business provisions
Notes
One of the few State orders that made student testing a condition of in-person attendance and campus residence; the USHE release quotes the order's operative text and records the Nov. 23, 2020 amendment
Retrieval noteUSHE's own release (live page, Sept. 26, 2026) read in full; primary as to the release and the quoted order text; the order PDF itself is in the Utah file's public-health-order series if saved there.