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Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-016	Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Health Systems, Hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers and Pharmacies to Vaccinate Certain Health Care PersonnelOrder Requiring Health Systems, Hospitals, FQHCs and Pharmacies to Vaccinate Certain Health Care Personnel (10 percent of each shipment…	Rachel L. Levine, MD, Secretary of Health	Pennsylvania - Department of Health (State health department)State	Dec. 30, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q1	Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingSupply chain	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-ME-001	22 M.R.S. secs. 801-825: sec. 801(4-A) (extreme public health emergency) and 801(10) (public health threat); sec. 802 (authority of department; health emergency; emergency rules; Governor's declaration); sec. 803 (inspection); sec. 804 (enforcement by agents, local health officers, sheriffs and law enforcement; cease-and-desist; fines; injunction); sec. 805 (court orders); sec. 807 (control of communicable diseases; designated facilities); sec. 808 (investigations); sec. 810 (emergency temporary custody of person or property); secs. 811-812 (court-ordered public health measures); sec. 816 (compliance-conditioned immunity); sec. 820 (extreme public health emergency powers); secs. 821-822 (reporting); sec. 825 (penalties)Title 22, Chapter 250: Control of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions (Maine Revised Statutes, chapter compilation generated January 5, 2026)	Maine Legislature (22 M.R.S. chapter 250, Control of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions; administered by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention)	MaineState	Mar. 18, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyEmergency declarationBusiness closureHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-002	Enforcement Discretion Under HIPAA To Allow Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information by Business Associates for Public Health and Health Oversight Activities in Response to COVID-19, 85 Fed. Reg. 19392 (Apr. 7, 2020)Enforcement Discretion Under HIPAA To Allow Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information by Business Associates for Public Health…	Roger T. Severino, Director, Office for Civil Rights, HHS	United States (federal); Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil RightsFederal	Apr. 2, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Health care ordersOther	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-NY-005	N.Y. Public Health Law § 225 (Public Health and Health Planning Council; State Sanitary Code)Public health and health planning council; sanitary code	New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 2, title 2); Public Health and Health Planning Council with the Commissioner's approval	New YorkState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-NM-004	NMSA 1978, Sections 12-10A-5 (Declaring a state of public health emergency) and 12-10A-6 (Special powers during a public health emergency)Public Health Emergency Response Act: the Governor's declaration, the Secretary of Health's coordination of the response, and the special…	Legislature of New Mexico (Public Health Emergency Response Act)	New MexicoState	Mar. 11, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyEmergency declarationHealth care ordersSupply chainStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-KS-009	K.S.A. 65-201, County boards of health; local health officers; review, amendment or revocation of local health officer orders; approval by board of county commissioners; civil action (text from March 25, 2021)65-201. County, city-county and multicounty units; local health officers; appointment, tenure, removal; laws applicable; review, amendment…	Kansas Legislature (K.S.A., Revisor of Statutes)	KansasState	June 9, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyStay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering capFace-covering requirementEvents and venuesStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-124	Summit County Board of Health resolution requiring the use of facial coverings in public (adopted Aug. 27, 2020), as announced in Summit County Public Health's release of Aug. 28, 2020Mandatory masking in all indoor public facilities and outdoors where six feet of distance cannot be maintained, effective immediately…	Summit County Board of Health (Summit County Public Health, Akron, Ohio)	Summit County, Ohio - Summit County Board of Health (local board of health of a general health district)County	Aug. 28, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. ND-064	Grand Forks County Health Officer emergency order regarding masks (November 2020), as noticed on the City of Grand Forks Public Health 'Health Officer Orders' pageCounty health officer emergency mask order for Grand Forks County	Grand Forks County Health Officer (Grand Forks Public Health)	Grand Forks County, North DakotaCounty	Nov. 13, 2020	2020 Q4	Face-covering requirement	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-LA-066	Order of the Health Officer for Control of COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission in Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities (Apr. 24, 2020)Order of the Health Officer for Control of COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission in Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities	County of Los Angeles Health Officer	Los Angeles County Public Health JurisdictionCounty	Apr. 24, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046	USHE release, 'Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Utah Department of Health issue weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for USHE students' (November 9, 2020), quoting the State Public Health Order's 'Restrictions on institutions of higher education'State public health order requiring every public institution of higher education to test each student age 18 or older who lives on campus or…	Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of Nov. 8, 2020, as updated Nov. 23, 2020); recited by the Utah System of Higher Education	Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of November 8, 2020) as applied to the Utah System of Higher Education's eight public institutions; State levelState	Nov. 9, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q1	Health care ordersWorkplace rulesOther	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-NY-016	Chapter 134 of the Laws of 2020 (S. 8835), amending Public Health Law §§ 3081(5) and 3082(1) (Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act)An act to amend the public health law, in relation to amending provisions regarding health care facilities and professionals during the…	New York State Legislature (S. 8835, signed by Governor Cuomo August 3, 2020), amending Public Health Law article 30-D (Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act, enacted April 3, 2020 as Part GGG of chapter 56 of 2020)	New YorkState	Aug. 3, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyHealth care ordersStanding dutyOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. NJ-083	Department of Health memorandum to Home Health Agency and Hospice Administrators, Temporary Operational Waivers during a State of EmergencyHome health agencies and hospices may serve outside licensed geography without prior approval during the State of Emergency, subject to…	Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health	New JerseySector regulator	Mar. 13, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Health care ordersOther	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-OR-006	Administrative rule: OAR 333-019-0010, Disease Related School, Child Care, and Worksite Restrictions: Imposition of Restrictions (COVID-19 added to the 'restrictable diseases' for food service facilities, schools, children's facilities and health care facilities by PH 17-2020)OAR 333-019-0010: no person may work at a school, child care facility, health care facility or food service facility while in a communicable…	Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division (rule filed with the Secretary of State; official Oregon Administrative Rules Database text)	OregonState	Mar. 26, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutySchools and child careHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. ID-058	Public Health Order No. 2020-01 (mandatory face coverings)A Public Health Order of the Board of Health of South Central Public Health District Establishing Standards for Face Coverings for…	Board of Health of South Central Public Health District (Linda F. Montgomery, Chair)	South Central Public Health District (Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls Counties), IdahoCounty	Nov. 12, 2020	2020 Q4	Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. WV-082	Monongalia County Health Department Ordinance (Health Officer's order)Businesses serving the public with three new COVID-19 cases required to close for deep cleaning; second occurrence adds 14-day quarantine…	Monongalia County Health Department (Dr. Lee B. Smith, Executive Director and County Health Officer)	Monongalia CountyCounty	July 14, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Business closureFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Primary source read
Ex. NM-036	Public Health Emergency Order of October 22, 2020 (retail 10 p.m. closing; rapid-response closures; certified-only indoor dining; State museums closed)Public Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect…	Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez	New MexicoState	Oct. 22, 2020	2020 Q4	Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-AK-021	Health Mandate 015, Services by Health Care Providers (Apr. 15, 2020; revised May 19 and June 1, 2020) (cross-reference to Ex. AK-017; not re-saved)Health Mandate 015 (conditions on the resumption of routine and elective health care)	Governor Mike Dunleavy; Commissioner Adam Crum, DHSS; Dr. Anne Zink, Chief Medical Officer	AlaskaState	Apr. 15, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-093	Emergency Order Pursuant to MCL 333.2253 - Instructions to Laboratories, Health Professionals and Hospitals (COVID-19 Testing Prioritization and Reporting)CLIA-certified laboratories must prioritize COVID-19 sampling and testing as instructed by the Department; health professionals collecting…	Robert Gordon, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services	Michigan - Department of Health and Human Services (State health department)State	Mar. 23, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Health care ordersWorkplace rulesSupply chainOther	Primary source read
Ex. AK-017	COVID-19 Health Mandate 015 (Services by Health Care Providers), revised June 1, 2020 (posted June 3)Health Mandate 015 (resumption of routine and elective health care under conditions; universal masking; screening)	Governor Dunleavy; Commissioner Crum; Dr. Zink	AlaskaState	Apr. 15, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4	Face-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-BNA-062	Shelby County Face Mask Health Order and DirectiveFace Mask Health Order and Directive (masks required countywide; businesses shall require them)	Shelby County Health Department (Health Director and Health Officer)	Shelby County, TennesseeCounty	July 3, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q4	Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-SEA-048	Amended Local Health Officer Order (isolation, quarantine and recovery facilities; homelessness de-intensification; behavioral health)Amended Local Health Officer Order	Dr. Jeff Duchin, Local Health Officer, Public Health - Seattle & King County	King County, WashingtonCounty	May 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Health care ordersQuarantine and isolationOther	Primary source read
Ex. NM-032	Public Health Emergency Order of September 18, 2020Public Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect…	Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez	New MexicoState	Sept. 18, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q4	Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineSchools and child care	Primary source read
Ex. NM-033	Public Health Emergency Order of October 16, 2020 (gatherings 5; 10 p.m. alcohol closing; lodging 60/25%)Public Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect…	Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez	New MexicoState	Oct. 16, 2020	2020 Q4	Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineSchools and child careCurfew and hoursAlcohol and bars	Primary source read
Ex. NM-039	Public Health Emergency Order of November 13, 2020 (the two-week 'reset')Public Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect…	Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez	New MexicoState	Nov. 13, 2020	2020 Q4	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careCurfew and hoursEvents and venuesWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. NM-041	Public Health Emergency Order of November 30, 2020 establishing the Red-Yellow-Green county-by-county frameworkPublic Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect…	Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez	New MexicoState	Nov. 30, 2020	2020 Q4	Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rules	Primary source read

Rachel L. Levine, MD, Secretary of Health, Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Health Systems, Hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers and Pharmacies to Vaccinate Certain Health Care Personnel (Dec. 30, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-016)
Maine Legislature (22 M.R.S. chapter 250, Control of Notifiable Diseases and Conditions; administered by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention), 22 M.R.S. secs. 801-825: sec. 801(4-A) (extreme public health emergency) and 801(10) (public health threat); sec. 802 (authority of department; health emergency; emergency rules; Governor's declaration); sec. 803 (inspection); sec. 804 (enforcement by agents, local health officers, sheriffs and law enforcement; cease-and-desist; fines; injunction); sec. 805 (court orders); sec. 807 (control of communicable diseases; designated facilities); sec. 808 (investigations); sec. 810 (emergency temporary custody of person or property); secs. 811-812 (court-ordered public health measures); sec. 816 (compliance-conditioned immunity); sec. 820 (extreme public health emergency powers); secs. 821-822 (reporting); sec. 825 (penalties) (standing) (Ex. DUT-ME-001)
Roger T. Severino, Director, Office for Civil Rights, HHS, Enforcement Discretion Under HIPAA To Allow Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information by Business Associates for Public Health and Health Oversight Activities in Response to COVID-19, 85 Fed. Reg. 19392 (Apr. 7, 2020) (Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-002)
New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 2, title 2); Public Health and Health Planning Council with the Commissioner's approval, N.Y. Public Health Law § 225 (Public Health and Health Planning Council; State Sanitary Code) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NY-005)
Legislature of New Mexico (Public Health Emergency Response Act), NMSA 1978, Sections 12-10A-5 (Declaring a state of public health emergency) and 12-10A-6 (Special powers during a public health emergency) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NM-004)
Kansas Legislature (K.S.A., Revisor of Statutes), K.S.A. 65-201, County boards of health; local health officers; review, amendment or revocation of local health officer orders; approval by board of county commissioners; civil action (text from March 25, 2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-009)
Summit County Board of Health (Summit County Public Health, Akron, Ohio), Summit County Board of Health resolution requiring the use of facial coverings in public (adopted Aug. 27, 2020), as announced in Summit County Public Health's release of Aug. 28, 2020 (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-124)
Grand Forks County Health Officer (Grand Forks Public Health), Grand Forks County Health Officer emergency order regarding masks (November 2020), as noticed on the City of Grand Forks Public Health 'Health Officer Orders' page (Nov. 13, 2020) (Ex. ND-064)
County of Los Angeles Health Officer, Order of the Health Officer for Control of COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission in Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities (Apr. 24, 2020) (Ex. MET-LA-066)
Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of Nov. 8, 2020, as updated Nov. 23, 2020); recited by the Utah System of Higher Education, USHE release, 'Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Utah Department of Health issue weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for USHE students' (November 9, 2020), quoting the State Public Health Order's 'Restrictions on institutions of higher education' (Nov. 9, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-046)
New York State Legislature (S. 8835, signed by Governor Cuomo August 3, 2020), amending Public Health Law article 30-D (Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act, enacted April 3, 2020 as Part GGG of chapter 56 of 2020), Chapter 134 of the Laws of 2020 (S. 8835), amending Public Health Law §§ 3081(5) and 3082(1) (Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act) (Aug. 3, 2020) (Ex. DUT-NY-016)
Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health, Department of Health memorandum to Home Health Agency and Hospice Administrators, Temporary Operational Waivers during a State of Emergency (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. NJ-083)
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division (rule filed with the Secretary of State; official Oregon Administrative Rules Database text), Administrative rule: OAR 333-019-0010, Disease Related School, Child Care, and Worksite Restrictions: Imposition of Restrictions (COVID-19 added to the 'restrictable diseases' for food service facilities, schools, children's facilities and health care facilities by PH 17-2020) (standing) (Ex. DUT-OR-006)
Board of Health of South Central Public Health District (Linda F. Montgomery, Chair), Public Health Order No. 2020-01 (mandatory face coverings) (Nov. 12, 2020) (Ex. ID-058)
Monongalia County Health Department (Dr. Lee B. Smith, Executive Director and County Health Officer), Monongalia County Health Department Ordinance (Health Officer's order) (July 14, 2020) (Ex. WV-082)
Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez, Public Health Emergency Order of October 22, 2020 (retail 10 p.m. closing; rapid-response closures; certified-only indoor dining; State museums closed) (Oct. 22, 2020) (Ex. NM-036)
Governor Mike Dunleavy; Commissioner Adam Crum, DHSS; Dr. Anne Zink, Chief Medical Officer, Health Mandate 015, Services by Health Care Providers (Apr. 15, 2020; revised May 19 and June 1, 2020) (cross-reference to Ex. AK-017; not re-saved) (Ex. DUT-AK-021)
Robert Gordon, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Emergency Order Pursuant to MCL 333.2253 - Instructions to Laboratories, Health Professionals and Hospitals (COVID-19 Testing Prioritization and Reporting) (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-093)
Governor Dunleavy; Commissioner Crum; Dr. Zink, COVID-19 Health Mandate 015 (Services by Health Care Providers), revised June 1, 2020 (posted June 3) (Apr. 15, 2020) (Ex. AK-017)
Shelby County Health Department (Health Director and Health Officer), Shelby County Face Mask Health Order and Directive (July 3, 2020) (Ex. MET-BNA-062)
Dr. Jeff Duchin, Local Health Officer, Public Health - Seattle & King County, Amended Local Health Officer Order (isolation, quarantine and recovery facilities; homelessness de-intensification; behavioral health) (May 20, 2020) (Ex. MET-SEA-048)
Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez, Public Health Emergency Order of September 18, 2020 (Sept. 18, 2020) (Ex. NM-032)
Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez, Public Health Emergency Order of October 16, 2020 (gatherings 5; 10 p.m. alcohol closing; lodging 60/25%) (Oct. 16, 2020) (Ex. NM-033)
Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez, Public Health Emergency Order of November 13, 2020 (the two-week 'reset') (Nov. 13, 2020) (Ex. NM-039)
Acting Secretary of Health Billy J. Jimenez, Public Health Emergency Order of November 30, 2020 establishing the Red-Yellow-Green county-by-county framework (Nov. 30, 2020) (Ex. NM-041)

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