The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wis. Stat. 100.305, 321.39, 323.10, 323.12, 323.13
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12
- End
- 2020-05-11 (60 days under Wis. Stat. 323.10; not extended by the Legislature; SJR 3 recites that the powers 'expired on May 11, 2020') (read as 2020-05-11)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to May 11, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- Department of Health Services
- all state agencies
- Adjutant General
- DATCP
- Functions reached
- predicate for every DHS Emergency Order of March-May 2020
- Collection
- Wisconsin WI
Operative words
1. Proclaim that a public health emergency, as defined in Section 323.02(16) of the Wisconsin Statutes, exists for the State of Wisconsin. 2. Designate the Department of Health Services as the lead agency to respond to the public health emergency. 3. Direct the Department of Health Services to take all necessary and appropriate measures to prevent and respond to incidents of COVID-19 in the State. 4. Suspend the provisions of any administrative rule, if the Secretary of the Department of Health Services determines that compliance with that rule would prevent, hinder, or delay necessary actions to respond to the emergency and increase the health threat.... 7. Proclaim that a period of abnormal economic disruption, as defined in Section 100.305 of the Wisconsin Statutes, exists in the State of Wisconsin.
Enforcement
Predicate declaration; the DHS emergency orders issued under it carry Wis. Stat. 252.25 penalties
Notes
Also directs DATCP to enforce price-gouging prohibitions (ATCP 106). Recited in EMO 12, Palm ¶5 and SJR 3.
Retrieval noteLegislative Reference Bureau archive copy of the signed order.