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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. DUT-IN-019	620 IAC 1-1-1, Recordkeeping requirements; construction industry; adoption of federal standards (Title 620, Article 1, Rule 1, Section 1)IOSHA's adoption of the federal occupational safety and health standards (29 C.F.R. Part 1910 and the construction standards) as Indiana…	Indiana Occupational Safety Standards Commission (rule compiled in the Indiana Administrative Code; text as mirrored by the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)	IndianaState	May 29, 1971	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MN-020	DLI, 'MNOSHA Compliance: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)' web page (captures Mar. 18, 2020; June 21, 2020; Oct. 22, 2020)MNOSHA Compliance: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)	Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, MNOSHA Compliance	MinnesotaState	Mar. 18, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-TX-009	Declaration of Public Health Disaster (March 19, 2020), renewed at 30-day intervalsDeclaration of Public Health Disaster	Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (John Hellerstedt, M.D.)	TexasState	Mar. 19, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyEmergency declarationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MA-032	DPH Stay-at-Home Advisory (Mar. 23, 2020); Safer at Home Advisory (May 18, 2020); Stay at Home Advisory 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. (Nov. 2, 2020) (library exhibit MA-009; cross-reference; verified_secondary; no file)Department of Public Health stay-at-home and safer-at-home advisories	Department of Public Health (Commissioner Monica Bharel)	MassachusettsState	Mar. 23, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Standing dutyStay-at-homeOther	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MA-033	Mandatory Safety Standards for Workplaces (Reopening Massachusetts, May 18, 2020), with the sector-specific workplace safety standards, protocol summaries and checklists issued under Order No. 33 s. 2 (May 2020 to May 2021)Mandatory Safety Standards for Workplaces: social distancing, hygiene protocols, staffing and operations, cleaning and disinfecting	Department of Labor Standards and Department of Public Health (with the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development), under COVID-19 Order No. 33, s. 2	MassachusettsState	May 18, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyCapacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-WY-010	Senate File No. SF1002, 'Emergency powers-Covid-19-2', Senate Enrolled Act No. 2, 2020 Wyo. Sess. Laws (Special Session) ch. 2AN ACT relating to emergency aid and emergency procedures in response to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic; clarifying immunity from…	Wyoming Legislature (Sixty-fifth Legislature, 2020 Special Session, May 15-16, 2020); sponsor Management Council; chapter assigned May 20, 2020	WyomingState	May 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyEmergency declarationOperating condition	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-DE-010	Division of Small Business, COVID-19 posters for businesses (required signage pack: face covering, social distancing, hand hygiene)DSB COVID-19 Posters (business signage required by the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Responsibilities of all Businesses)	Delaware Division of Small Business	DelawareState	May 31, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-NE-013	Health Director's power to close or restrict access to any business; penalty for violating a Directed Health Measure	City of Lincoln (Lincoln Municipal Code ch. 8.18) as recited by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department	Lincoln and Lancaster County, NebraskaCity	July 17, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyBusiness closureStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MN-019	MDH, 'Face Covering Requirements and Recommendations under Executive Order 20-81' (web page, first captured July 23, 2020; updated through 2021)Face Covering Requirements and Recommendations under Executive Order 20-81	Minnesota Department of Health	MinnesotaState	July 23, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-NE-031	Emergency Ordinance No. 42309, Prevention of COVID-19 (cross-reference to Ex. NE-072; not re-saved)Duty of every entity maintaining premises open to the public to require face coverings	Omaha City Council (emergency ordinance), approved by Mayor Jean Stothert	City of Omaha, NebraskaCity	Aug. 11, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementOperating condition	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MS-005	Miss. Code Ann. § 33-15-11(b)(5), (b)(6), (b)(17) and (c)(1) (legislative reprint of 2021)Emergency Management Law: Governor's powers to secure compliance with orders through law enforcement and the boards of health; proclamation…	Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 33, ch. 15, Mississippi Emergency Management Law); Governor as the officer empowered	MississippiState	Feb. 2, 2021	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyEmergency declarationStanding dutyOther	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MS-007	Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5 and § 41-3-15 (legislative reprint of 2022)Legislative reprint of the epidemic-control, isolation, quarantine and detainment provisions (the bill's proposed addition, Governor's…	Legislature of Mississippi (House Bill 612, 2022 Regular Session, as introduced; died in committee Feb. 1, 2022)	MississippiState	Feb. 1, 2022	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyBusiness closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-KS-001	Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021)AN ACT concerning public health; removing the authorization for a county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public…	Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115)	KansasState	July 1, 2025	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyGathering capQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-HI-011	Hawaii Administrative Rules § 11-156-5, Isolation (chapter 11-156, Communicable Diseases)Isolation	Department of Health (rule); text read in the Legal Information Institute (Cornell) compilation of the Hawaii Administrative Rules	HawaiiState	Mar. 13, 2008	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-HI-012	Department of Health web page, 'Hawaii Isolation and Control Requirements' (Reporting an Illness: For Healthcare Providers)Hawaii Isolation and Control Requirements	Department of Health, Disease Outbreak Control Division	HawaiiState	Sept. 28, 2026	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-AR-017	Sullivan v. Romero, order of dismissal (Pulaski Cnty. Cir. Ct., Oct. 2020); appeal No. CV-20-721 dismissed on appellants' motion (Ark. Apr. 2021)Sullivan v. Romero: eighteen legislators' challenge to forty-three Department of Health COVID-19 directives (Mar. 13-Aug. 21, 2020) as rules…	Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas (Judge Wendell Griffen); Supreme Court of Arkansas (No. CV-20-721)	ArkansasCourt		2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyOther	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-AZ-021	StatuteViolation; classification	Arizona Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes, title 36, ch. 1, art. 1)	ArizonaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MN-021	No COVID-19 civil-liability shield or immunity statute for businesses was enacted in Minnesota in 2020 or 2021Absence of a COVID-19 liability shield (2020-2021)	Minnesota Legislature (91st and 92nd Legislatures, 2020-2021 regular and special sessions)	MinnesotaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyOther	Confirmed from a secondary source

Indiana Occupational Safety Standards Commission (rule compiled in the Indiana Administrative Code; text as mirrored by the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School), 620 IAC 1-1-1, Recordkeeping requirements; construction industry; adoption of federal standards (Title 620, Article 1, Rule 1, Section 1) (standing) (Ex. DUT-IN-019)
Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, MNOSHA Compliance, DLI, 'MNOSHA Compliance: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)' web page (captures Mar. 18, 2020; June 21, 2020; Oct. 22, 2020) (Ex. DUT-MN-020)
Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (John Hellerstedt, M.D.), Declaration of Public Health Disaster (March 19, 2020), renewed at 30-day intervals (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. DUT-TX-009)
Department of Public Health (Commissioner Monica Bharel), DPH Stay-at-Home Advisory (Mar. 23, 2020); Safer at Home Advisory (May 18, 2020); Stay at Home Advisory 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. (Nov. 2, 2020) (library exhibit MA-009; cross-reference; verified_secondary; no file) (Ex. DUT-MA-032)
Department of Labor Standards and Department of Public Health (with the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development), under COVID-19 Order No. 33, s. 2, Mandatory Safety Standards for Workplaces (Reopening Massachusetts, May 18, 2020), with the sector-specific workplace safety standards, protocol summaries and checklists issued under Order No. 33 s. 2 (May 2020 to May 2021) (Ex. DUT-MA-033)
Wyoming Legislature (Sixty-fifth Legislature, 2020 Special Session, May 15-16, 2020); sponsor Management Council; chapter assigned May 20, 2020, Senate File No. SF1002, 'Emergency powers-Covid-19-2', Senate Enrolled Act No. 2, 2020 Wyo. Sess. Laws (Special Session) ch. 2 (standing) (Ex. DUT-WY-010)
Delaware Division of Small Business, Division of Small Business, COVID-19 posters for businesses (required signage pack: face covering, social distancing, hand hygiene) (May 31, 2020) (Ex. DUT-DE-010)
City of Lincoln (Lincoln Municipal Code ch. 8.18) as recited by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Health Director's power to close or restrict access to any business; penalty for violating a Directed Health Measure (standing) (Ex. DUT-NE-013)
Minnesota Department of Health, MDH, 'Face Covering Requirements and Recommendations under Executive Order 20-81' (web page, first captured July 23, 2020; updated through 2021) (Ex. DUT-MN-019)
Omaha City Council (emergency ordinance), approved by Mayor Jean Stothert, Emergency Ordinance No. 42309, Prevention of COVID-19 (cross-reference to Ex. NE-072; not re-saved) (Aug. 11, 2020) (Ex. DUT-NE-031)
Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 33, ch. 15, Mississippi Emergency Management Law); Governor as the officer empowered, Miss. Code Ann. § 33-15-11(b)(5), (b)(6), (b)(17) and (c)(1) (legislative reprint of 2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-005)
Legislature of Mississippi (House Bill 612, 2022 Regular Session, as introduced; died in committee Feb. 1, 2022), Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5 and § 41-3-15 (legislative reprint of 2022) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-007)
Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115), Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-001)
Department of Health (rule); text read in the Legal Information Institute (Cornell) compilation of the Hawaii Administrative Rules, Hawaii Administrative Rules § 11-156-5, Isolation (chapter 11-156, Communicable Diseases) (standing) (Ex. DUT-HI-011)
Department of Health, Disease Outbreak Control Division, Department of Health web page, 'Hawaii Isolation and Control Requirements' (Reporting an Illness: For Healthcare Providers) (standing) (Ex. DUT-HI-012)
Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas (Judge Wendell Griffen); Supreme Court of Arkansas (No. CV-20-721), Sullivan v. Romero, order of dismissal (Pulaski Cnty. Cir. Ct., Oct. 2020); appeal No. CV-20-721 dismissed on appellants' motion (Ark. Apr. 2021) (Ex. DUT-AR-017)
Arizona Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes, title 36, ch. 1, art. 1), Statute (standing) (Ex. DUT-AZ-021)
Minnesota Legislature (91st and 92nd Legislatures, 2020-2021 regular and special sessions), No COVID-19 civil-liability shield or immunity statute for businesses was enacted in Minnesota in 2020 or 2021 (Ex. DUT-MN-021)

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