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Executive Order 2021-585

State of Emergency: face coverings in all public and private preschool, Head Start and K-12 schools (including school buses) and in all child care settings

Governor Andy Beshear · Kentucky (State)

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Jurisdiction
Kentucky
Level
State
Authority
Kentucky Constitution; KRS Chapter 39A (state of emergency declared by EO 2020-215, Mar. 6, 2020)
Issued
2021-08-10 Aug. 10, 2021
Effective
2021-08-10
End
Rescinded Aug. 23, 2021 following Beshear v. Acree/Cameron v. Beshear (Ky. Aug. 21, 2021); school masks continued under the Kentucky Board of Education's emergency regulation 702 KAR 1:195E (Aug. 12, 2021) until SB 1 (2021 Special Session, Sept. 9, 2021); child care masks under CHFS emergency regulation 922 KAR 2:405E (Aug. 2021) until SB 2 (Sept. 9, 2021) (read as 2021-08-23)
In force
Aug. 10, 2021 to Aug. 23, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
Addressees
  • all teachers, staff, students and visitors in all public and private preschool, Head Start, elementary, middle and high schools (preschool through grade 12), including vehicles used for transportation such as school buses
  • all staff, visitors and children age 2 and older in all child care settings
Functions reached
  • IN
  • EC
  • TR
  • AC
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

2. All individuals - all teachers, staff, students, and visitors - must cover their nose and mouth with a face covering when indoors in all public and private preschool, Head Start, elementary, middle, and high schools (preschool through grade 12) in Kentucky, including but not limited to inside of vehicles used for transportation such as school buses, regardless of vaccination status. 3. All staff and visitors, and all children age 2 and older who are able to wear a face covering, must cover their nose and mouth with a face covering when indoors in all child care settings in Kentucky, regardless of vaccination status.

Enforcement

KRS 39A.990

Notes

The Order's recitals (pp. 1-2) record 119 of 120 Kentucky counties at substantial or high transmission on Aug. 10, 2021 and hospitalizations doubling every two weeks;

Retrieval note

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