The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Cal. Health & Safety Code 120125 et seq.; State Public Health Officer Order of June 11, 2021 (Beyond the Blueprint) incorporating CDPH K-12 guidance as mandatory
- Issued
- 2021-07-12 July 12, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-12 (2021-22 school year) (read as 2021-07-12)
- End
- Universal indoor masking transitioned to a strong recommendation March 12, 2022 (read as 2022-03-12)
- In force
- July 12, 2021 to Mar. 12, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all public and private K-12 schools in California
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Education and Child Care SEC-15
Operative words
Originally published on July 12, 2021.... The following guidance is designed to keep California K-12 schools open for in-person instruction safely... [As amended in 2022:] the universal indoor mask mandate in K-12 school settings would transition to a strong recommendation... CDPH... currently strongly recommends continuing to mask indoors in school settings.
Enforcement
Cal. Health & Safety Code 120275 et seq.; the June 11, 2021 State Public Health Officer Order made CDPH's K-12 guidance binding
Notes
The exhibit is CDPH's own page as it stood in Sept. 2026, which retains the July 12, 2021 publication date and the later amendments; the July 12, 2021 universal indoor masking requirement is confirmed by the recital in Ex. SEC-15-023 and by Ballotpedia (Ex. SEC-15-003). The page also carries the exposure and quarantine rules (masked exposed students remain 10 days) and the youth-sports masking provisions.
Retrieval noteThe Wayback capture of July 12, 2021 could not be retrieved (rate limit).