As COVID-19 spread across the United States, numerous states and the District of Columbia signed executive orders instructing non-essential businesses to close.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released guidelines recommending to states which industries and categories of workers should be considered essential and permitted to work during the pandemic. CISA issued three iterations of these guidelines, the first on March 19, 2020, a revised version on March 28, 2020, and a so-called Version 3.0 on April 17, 2020.
States are now considering how to reopen their economy, balancing the desire to permit businesses to operate with the need to continue to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some states have begun issuing further orders permitting previously closed businesses to reopen, often subject to certain conditions, such as social distancing requirements.
Read more on the full list of State Executive Orders. This resource will be updated as additional orders are issued or modified.