Dear Clients and Friends,
Below please find the fourteenth edition of Stearns Weaver Miller's COVID-19 Legal Compass, highlighting government updates, alerts on critical topics, and resources to help you navigate and adapt to this rapidly changing environment.
All actions described below have been ordered or updated between June 22, 2020 and June 25, 2020. We have done our best to include significant, timely information, although new orders and actions are being introduced continuously.
View a comprehensive listing of the government actions pertaining to COVID-19 that we have collected to date.
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RECENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
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Revised Payment Protection Program ("PPP") Loan Applications and Updated Rules
: The SBA has amended the borrower and lender application forms for participants in the PPP and released a new interim final rule which makes additional revisions to eligibility. The new rule allows PPP loan eligibility flexibility for felons and those on probation or parole. The PPP will close to new applications on June 30, 2020.
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CDC Continues to Provide Guidance
: The CDC continues to provide guidance during the country's reopening. One of the latest documents,
Guidance for General Population Disaster Shelters, could be of importance to Florida officials as it is currently hurricane season. All of the latest CDC guidance is available at their
website.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") Issues Additional Guidance
: OSHA recently put forth control and prevention measures for protecting workers from coronavirus exposure and infection. OSHA's Control and Prevention
webpage provides interim guidance for specific worker groups and their employers, including airline operations and business travelers, among others.
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RECENT STATE OF FLORIDA GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
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Limited Suspension of On-Premises Consumption: The DBPR has suspended alcohol sales for consumption on-premises at all establishments that derive more than 50% gross revenues from sales of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. Click for more.
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Local Government Meetings: Local governments may continue to meet via communications media technology until August 1, 2020, with the extension of Executive Order 20-69. Click for more.
View an easy-to-read matrix of the Florida government agency orders that we have collected to date. Highlighted actions are new (June 22-25) since last issue.
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FLORIDA COVID-19 MAPS
Our in-house
Geographic Information System (GIS) team has created state-of-the-art, proprietary work products using data from the Florida Department of Health website. These high-definition maps are extremely detailed, searchable, and are created to help easily visualize Florida's progress in regards to the pandemic.
- Florida COVID-19 Cases as of June 25, by Zip Code. Click for map.
- Change in Number of Cases from June 18 to June 25, by Zip Code. Click for map.
- Change in Number of Hospitalizations from June 18 to June 25, by County. Click for map.
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RECENT COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
Our
comprehensive listing
includes the latest updates on the actions of 59 local governments throughout the state of Florida, as well as permitting information and a virtual meetings database. Grouped by region and with an easy-to-navigate table of contents, the listing is filled with links to each government's orders, organized by date.
MASKING MORE: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TRENDING TOWARDS MANDATORY FACIAL COVERINGS
In a continuation of last week's trend, more local governments are beginning to require the use of facial coverings throughout businesses, government buildings, and other public spaces where social distancing may not easily be maintained. Noncompliance increasingly carries the risk of citations and fines, with exceptions made for several demographic, employment, and health-related reasons. Local governments that have recently implemented this requirement, such as Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties, have all noted another, more underlying trend: an increase in the seven-day positivity rate among those of their constituents who have been tested for COVID-19.
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