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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. SEC-15-011	Executive Order No. 104 (2020)Aggressive social distancing measures to mitigate further spread of COVID-19 (closure of schools and institutions of higher education…	Governor Philip D. Murphy	New JerseyState	Mar. 16, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Business closureGathering capSchools and child careCurfew and hours	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-042	Proclamation 20-12 (Higher Education) and its amendments 20-12.1 through 20-12.5 (including 20-12.4 of July 12, 2021)COVID-19 Higher Education	Governor Jay Inslee	WashingtonState	Mar. 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Business closureSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-070	Executive Order GA-08Relating to COVID-19 preparedness and mitigation (social gatherings; bars and restaurants; gyms; nursing home visits; school closures)	Governor Greg Abbott	TexasState	Mar. 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureGathering capSchools and child careHealth care orders	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-056	Executive Order 53Temporary Restrictions on Restaurants, Recreational, Entertainment, Gatherings, Non-Essential Retail Businesses, and Closure of K-12 Schools…	Governor Ralph S. Northam	VirginiaState	Mar. 23, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureGathering capSchools and child care	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-012	Executive Order No. 110 (2020)Emergency child care for essential persons; closure of child care centers that do not certify	Governor Philip D. Murphy	New JerseyState	Mar. 25, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureSchools and child care	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-060	Executive Order No. 20-09Closure of K-12 schools through April 28, 2020; restrictions on in-person instruction at institutions of higher education	Governor Kate Brown	OregonState	Mar. 17, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-071	Director's Order that Reopens Facilities Providing Child Care Services, with Exceptions (rescinding the Director's Order of March 24, 2020 that closed facilities providing child care services)Director's Order that Reopens Facilities Providing Child Care Services, with Exceptions	Director of Health Amy Acton, M.D., M.P.H., Ohio Department of Health	OhioSector regulator	May 31, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Business closureFace-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-052	Executive Order 2020-142 (MI Safe Schools: Michigan's 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap)Provision of preK-12 education for the 2020-2021 school year	Governor Gretchen Whitmer	MichiganState	June 30, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q4	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-018	Executive Order No. 155 (2020)Resumption of in-person instruction and on-campus operations at institutions of higher education and training schools from July 1, 2020…	Governor Philip D. Murphy	New JerseyState	June 18, 2020	2020 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-090	TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation)TEA SY 2020-21 Public Health Planning Guidance and 2021-22 updates	Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath)	TexasSector regulator	July 7, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-053	COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Schools and School-Based Programs (July 17, 2020)COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Schools and School-Based Programs	California Department of Public Health (with Cal/OSHA), under the Governor's July 17, 2020 framework	CaliforniaSector regulator	July 17, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q4	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-092	The July 17-20, 2020 fall-opening orders of Kansas, Utah and Iowa (grouped record)Kansas EO 20-59; Utah UDOH K-12 face-covering order; Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020	Governor Laura Kelly (KS EO 20-59, July 20, 2020: face coverings in schools); Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of July 20, 2020: face coverings in all public and private K-12 schools); Governor Kim Reynolds (Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020: at least half of instruction in person)	Kansas; Utah; IowaState	July 20, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-021	Emergency Executive Order 20-82 (Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 school year)Implementing a Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 School Year	Governor Tim Walz	MinnesotaState	July 30, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-058	Executive Order No. 1517Face coverings in schools; delayed start of the 2020-21 year for grades 7-12 in eight counties	Governor Tate Reeves	MississippiState	Aug. 4, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-014	Executive Order No. 175 (2020)Reopening of schools for the 2020-2021 school year under mandatory health and safety standards; remote instruction where standards cannot be…	Governor Philip D. Murphy	New JerseyState	Aug. 13, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-069	Director's Order Requiring the Use of Facial Coverings in Child Education SettingsDirector's Order Requiring the Use of Facial Coverings in Child Education Settings	Interim Director of Health Lance D. Himes, Ohio Department of Health	OhioSector regulator	Aug. 13, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-078	MDHHS Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order of November 15, 2020 (in-person instruction at high schools and colleges suspended Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2020; extended Dec. 7 to Dec. 20, 2020)Gatherings and Face Mask Order (Nov. 15, 2020)	Director Robert Gordon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services	MichiganSector regulator	Nov. 15, 2020	2020 Q4	Business closureGathering capSchools and child careEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-079	Executive Order 2020-969 (all public and private K-12 schools to cease in-person instruction Nov. 23, 2020; elementary schools may reopen Dec. 7 in non-red counties; middle and high schools remote through Jan. 4, 2021)Executive Order 2020-969	Governor Andy Beshear	KentuckyState	Nov. 18, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q1	Business closureSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-022	Emergency Executive Order 20-99 (Four Week Dial Back), as extended by EO 20-103 (Dec. 16, 2020)Implementing a Four Week Dial Back on Certain Activities to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 (organized youth and adult sports paused)	Governor Tim Walz	MinnesotaState	Nov. 18, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q1	Business closureGathering capEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-029	Executive Order GA-36Relating to the prohibition of governmental entities and officials from mandating face coverings or restricting activities in response to…	Governor Greg Abbott	TexasState	May 18, 2021	2021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-031	H.B. 1007, Face Covering Requirements (2021 First Special Session)Face Covering Requirements	Utah Legislature, 2021 First Special Session; Governor Spencer Cox (signed)	UtahState	May 19, 2021	2021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-030	House File 847 (2021), Division on facial covering policies (counties, cities and schools), new Iowa Code section 280.31An Act relating to education, including... facial covering policies	Iowa General Assembly (89th G.A.); Governor Kim Reynolds (signed)	IowaState	May 20, 2021	2021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-002	School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year (State reopening regimes, mid-year closures, return orders, monthly status)School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year	Ballotpedia	United States (fifty States)Other	June 30, 2021	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-046	Senate Bill 658 (2021), enrolledAn Act relating to schools; prohibiting... vaccination requirements, vaccine passports and mask mandates for unvaccinated students absent a…	Oklahoma Legislature (58th Leg.); Governor Kevin Stitt (signed)	OklahomaState	May 28, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingOther	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-15-089	Proviso 1.108 (no school district may use appropriated funds to require students or staff to wear face masks); upheld by the South Carolina Supreme Court Sept. 2, 2021 (City of Columbia); enforcement enjoined Sept. 28, 2021 (Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster)Proviso 1.108 (school mask-mandate funding ban)	South Carolina General Assembly (2021-22 Appropriations Act, H. 4100, Proviso 1.108); U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (Lewis, J.)	South CarolinaState	June 22, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careOther	Confirmed from a secondary source

Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 104 (2020) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-011)
Governor Jay Inslee, Proclamation 20-12 (Higher Education) and its amendments 20-12.1 through 20-12.5 (including 20-12.4 of July 12, 2021) (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-042)
Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-08 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-070)
Governor Ralph S. Northam, Executive Order 53 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-056)
Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 110 (2020) (Mar. 25, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-012)
Governor Kate Brown, Executive Order No. 20-09 (Mar. 17, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-060)
Director of Health Amy Acton, M.D., M.P.H., Ohio Department of Health, Director's Order that Reopens Facilities Providing Child Care Services, with Exceptions (rescinding the Director's Order of March 24, 2020 that closed facilities providing child care services) (May 31, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-071)
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-142 (MI Safe Schools: Michigan's 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap) (June 30, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-052)
Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 155 (2020) (June 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-018)
Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath), TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation) (Ex. SEC-15-090)
California Department of Public Health (with Cal/OSHA), under the Governor's July 17, 2020 framework, COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Schools and School-Based Programs (July 17, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-053)
Governor Laura Kelly (KS EO 20-59, July 20, 2020: face coverings in schools); Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of July 20, 2020: face coverings in all public and private K-12 schools); Governor Kim Reynolds (Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020: at least half of instruction in person), The July 17-20, 2020 fall-opening orders of Kansas, Utah and Iowa (grouped record) (July 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-092)
Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-82 (Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 school year) (July 30, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-021)
Governor Tate Reeves, Executive Order No. 1517 (Aug. 4, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-058)
Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 175 (2020) (Aug. 13, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-014)
Interim Director of Health Lance D. Himes, Ohio Department of Health, Director's Order Requiring the Use of Facial Coverings in Child Education Settings (Aug. 13, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-069)
Director Robert Gordon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, MDHHS Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order of November 15, 2020 (in-person instruction at high schools and colleges suspended Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2020; extended Dec. 7 to Dec. 20, 2020) (Nov. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-078)
Governor Andy Beshear, Executive Order 2020-969 (all public and private K-12 schools to cease in-person instruction Nov. 23, 2020; elementary schools may reopen Dec. 7 in non-red counties; middle and high schools remote through Jan. 4, 2021) (Nov. 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-079)
Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-99 (Four Week Dial Back), as extended by EO 20-103 (Dec. 16, 2020) (Nov. 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-022)
Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-36 (May 18, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-029)
Utah Legislature, 2021 First Special Session; Governor Spencer Cox (signed), H.B. 1007, Face Covering Requirements (2021 First Special Session) (May 19, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-031)
Iowa General Assembly (89th G.A.); Governor Kim Reynolds (signed), House File 847 (2021), Division on facial covering policies (counties, cities and schools), new Iowa Code section 280.31 (May 20, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-030)
Ballotpedia, School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year (State reopening regimes, mid-year closures, return orders, monthly status) (June 30, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-002)
Oklahoma Legislature (58th Leg.); Governor Kevin Stitt (signed), Senate Bill 658 (2021), enrolled (May 28, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-046)
South Carolina General Assembly (2021-22 Appropriations Act, H. 4100, Proviso 1.108); U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (Lewis, J.), Proviso 1.108 (no school district may use appropriated funds to require students or staff to wear face masks); upheld by the South Carolina Supreme Court Sept. 2, 2021 (City of Columbia); enforcement enjoined Sept. 28, 2021 (Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster) (June 22, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-089)

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