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Twelfth Modification of the Declaration of a State of Emergency

Twelfth Modification of the Declaration of a State of Emergency (activation of lapsed-license volunteer health workers under crisis standards of care; State disability program; regulatory comment periods)

Governor John C. Carney · Delaware (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Delaware
Level
State
Authority
20 Del. C. ch. 31
Issued
2020-04-23 Apr. 23, 2020
Effective
2020-04-23 4:15 p.m. E.D.T. (read as 2020-04-23)
End
Carried into the Omnibus (DE-031 § L) and the Twenty-Ninth Modification (DE-038 § H.10-15); struck July 13, 2021 (read as 2021-07-13)
In force
Apr. 23, 2020 to July 13, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care orders
Addressees
  • hospitals
  • lapsed licensees
  • State agencies
Functions reached
  • SX/PR elective procedures (the Governor's own recital that they were suspended)
  • HR volunteer activation of lapsed licensees
Collection
Delaware DE

Operative words

Recital at 4: 'WHEREAS, the suspension of elective surgeries and non-emergency medical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic may preclude state employees on short term disability leave from obtaining the healthcare services needed to return to work.' § C.2: suspends 29 Del. C. § 5253(c)(5) for State employees 'who, as a result of health care providers having suspended performing non-emergency or elective services during the COVID-19 pandemic,' cannot obtain care. Recited in the Omnibus as allowing 'the Public Health Authority to activate more out-of-state health care workers' (DE-031 at 4).

Enforcement

20 Del. C. ch. 31

Notes

Primary evidence, in the Governor's own order, that elective surgeries and non-emergency medical procedures were suspended in Delaware in the spring of 2020; the suspending instrument itself is record DE-NR-2.

Retrieval note

Read (recitals and § C).

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