The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq. (State of Emergency)
- Issued
- 2021-10-20 Oct. 20, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-10-20 (applies to new contracts, solicitations, extensions, renewals and options) (read as 2021-10-20)
- End
- Outside the claimable period (post-Sept. 30, 2021); recorded as the continuation of the State's mandate program
- In force
- Oct. 20, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- executive departments and agencies
- State contractors and subcontractors at every tier
- covered workers with access to State property
- Functions reached
- HR/PL contractor workforces on State projects (post-period)
- JS construction on State property (post-period)
- Collection
- New Jersey NJ
Operative words
Para. 1: each executive department and agency "shall, to the extent permitted by law, ensure that contracts or agreements entered into by the executive department or agency include a clause that the contractor or any subcontractors, at any tier, that is party to the contract ('covered contractor(s)') must maintain a policy that requires all covered workers to either provide adequate proof to the covered contractor that they have been fully vaccinated or submit to COVID-19 testing at minimum one to two times weekly."
Enforcement
Contract clause; N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50
Notes
Post-period context: the mandate program begun with EO 252 (health care), EO 253 (schools) and EO 264 (child care) reached State contractors on October 20, 2021.
Retrieval noteRead from nj.gov (paras. 1-3). Post-period; never pleaded as a Q3 2021 order.