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Ex. FED-047Rescission of the pre-departure testing requirementRescinding Requirement for Negative Pre-Departure COVID-19 Test Result or Documentation of Recovery From COVID-19 for All Airline or Other…Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHSUnited StatesFederalJune 10, 2022Travel and quarantinePrimary source read
Ex. ECO-B-107Ballotpedia, 'School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year'State-by-State table of 2021-22 school mask requirements and bans (instrument type and end date) and teacher/staff vaccination requirements…Ballotpedia (secondary source)United States (50 States and D.C.)OtherAug. 1, 20222021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-003School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year (school mask requirements and bans, staff and student vaccine requirements, litigation)School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic yearBallotpediaUnited States (fifty States)OtherAug. 1, 20222021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolationConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-MT-019Stand Up Montana v. Missoula County Public Schools, 2023 MT 240, No. DA 23-0046 (Mont. Dec. 12, 2023)Opinion affirming summary judgment for the Missoula County school districts on the substantive due process challenge to their 2021-22 mask…Supreme Court of Montana (Gustafson, J.)MontanaCourtDec. 12, 2023Standing dutyFace-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-DE-00416 Del. C. §§ 501-510 (Report of contagious diseases; Notifiable diseases; Communicable diseases; regulations; quarantine; Due process rights of quarantined individuals; Tracking of potential or existing public health emergencies)Delaware Code, Title 16, Chapter 5, Subchapter I: General GuidelinesDelaware General Assembly (codified statute)DelawareStateSept. 28, 20262020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutySchools and child careHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-MT-008Mont. Code Ann. 10-3-104General authority of governorMontana Legislature (Montana Code Annotated, Title 10, ch. 3)MontanaStateSept. 28, 20262020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-SD-006SDCL ch. 34-48A, Emergency Management (§§ 34-48A-1, 34-48A-2, 34-48A-5, 34-48A-9, 34-48A-49)Emergency Management: Governor's authority in time of disaster or emergency, including control of the movement of persons and the occupancy…South Dakota Legislature (codified statute administered by the Governor and the Department of Public Safety)South DakotaStateSept. 29, 20262020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantinePrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-067Emergency Rule Establishing a New Temporary Emergency Child Care Permit (26 TAC ch. 745, Subchapter X) (spring 2020)Emergency Rule Establishing New Temporary Emergency Child Care PermitTexas HHSCTexas; HHSC Child Care RegulationSector regulator2020 Q2Schools and child careOtherConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. CO-089Pitkin County Public Health Order (spring 2020; document captured Apr. 13, 2020)Pitkin County Public Health OrderPitkin County Public Health Director / Board of HealthPitkin County, Colorado (Aspen, Snowmass Village, Basalt)County2020 Q2Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantineConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-AL-004Ala. Code ch. 22-12 (Quarantine)Quarantine: enforcement by the State, counties and municipalities; State authority paramount; proclamation of quarantine by the Governor or…Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 22, chapter 12)AlabamaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-005Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 511-9-1-.01 to 511-9-1-.05Isolation and Quarantine (Scope and Purpose; Definitions; Public Health Control Measures; Powers of the County Boards of Health to Implement…Georgia Department of Public Health (rules filed with the Secretary of State; Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Chapter 511-9-1)GeorgiaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-LA-004La. R.S. 40:7 (communicable disease epidemic; procedure; quarantine of a parish or municipality)Communicable disease epidemic: the state health officer shall proclaim and order an infected parish, municipality or portion quarantined…Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes)LouisianaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-LA-005Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 51 (Public Health - Sanitary Code), Part II (The Control of Diseases), section 117 (Disease Control Measures Including Isolation/Quarantine); with Part I, section 115 (Emergency Situations) and section 117 (Employee Health)Sanitary Code disease-control rule: the state health officer's duty to institute control measures whenever a case of communicable disease…Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health (state health officer), by rule; codified by the Division of Administration, Office of the State RegisterLouisianaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureTravel and quarantineWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-LA-007La. R.S. 29:766 (declaration of a state of public health emergency; emergency powers of the governor)Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act: declaration of a state of public health emergency by executive order or proclamation, to be…Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes)LouisianaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationStay-at-homeCapacity limitTravel and quarantineStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-LA-016La. R.S. 29:727 (parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agencies; local disaster or emergency declarations; powers of the parish president)Local disaster or emergency declarations by parish presidents (thirty days, renewable, ninety days with the governing authority's approval)…Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes)LouisianaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationCapacity limitTravel and quarantineStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-MD-005StatuteGovernor's declaration of a state of emergency and emergency powers, including suspension of statutes and control of ingress, egress…Maryland General Assembly (Public Safety Article, Title 14, Subtitle 1, Emergency Management)MarylandState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-MN-002Minn. Stat. § 144.419 (2020)Isolation and Quarantine of PersonsMinnesota Legislature (Laws 2002, ch. 402, the Minnesota Emergency Health Powers Act, as amended; administered by the Commissioner of Health)MinnesotaState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-TN-006Tenn. Code Ann. sec. 58-2-107Emergency management powers of the governorTennessee General Assembly (codified statute); exercised by the GovernorTennesseeState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyEmergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantineStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-WI-001Wis. Stat. § 252.02 (2019-20), Powers and duties of departmentPowers and duties of department: surveillance and inspection (1); closing schools and forbidding public gatherings (3); rules and orders for…Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; administered by the Department of Health Services)WisconsinState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureGathering capSchools and child careQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-WY-004Wyo. Stat. Ann. 35-4-101 to 35-4-10535-4-101. Department of health to prescribe rules and regulations; penalty for violation; resisting or interfering with enforcement.…Wyoming Legislature (Wyo. Stat. Title 35, ch. 4, art. 1)WyomingState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. MET-BNA-077Shelby County Health Department directive requiring universal indoor masking in schools and daycares (August 2021; numbered Health Directive No. 24 in the Department's sequence)School and daycare universal indoor masking order (August 2021)Shelby County Health DepartmentShelby County, TennesseeCounty2021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-BNA-078Shelby County Health Order No. 26Health Order No. 26 (September-October 2021: indoor mask requirements in businesses and schools continued)Shelby County Health DepartmentShelby County, TennesseeCounty2021 Q3Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-PHL-090Chester County instruments: COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration (March 2020); intergovernmental agreement to serve Delaware County (approved Mar. 18, 2020; ended July 31, 2021); Health Department school guidance (Aug. 4, 2020) and 2021-22 close-contact, symptomatic and antigen-testing instructions (Aug. 2021); 'Simple Ask: Wear a Mask' campaign (2020); First Amended Declaration of Judicial Emergency of the Court of Common Pleas (2020)Chester County COVID-19 instruments (by category)Chester County Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department (Jeanne Casner, Director, 2020; Jeanne Franklin, Public Health Director, 2021); President Judge of the 15th Judicial DistrictChester County, Pennsylvania (Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department; Court of Common Pleas, 15th Judicial District)County2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationSchools and child careCourts and public officesQuarantine and isolationConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-PHL-091Reduced 2021 service levels (Regional Rail on a modified Saturday schedule in mid-2021; Board approval in June 2021 of a return to about 60 percent of pre-pandemic Regional Rail service after Labor Day 2021)SEPTA reduced Regional Rail and transit schedules, 2021SEPTASEPTASector regulator2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Travel and quarantineConfirmed from a secondary source