Dear Clients and Friends,
Below please find the fifteenth 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 26, 2020 and July 5, 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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Payment Protection Program ("PPP") Extension Signed Into Law
: On Saturday, July 4th, the President signed S. 4116 into law. The bill, passed quickly by Congress, extends the PPP for another five weeks, from June 30th to August 8th. According to estimates, the PPP program still has $130 billion to distribute to small businesses in need of assistance due to COVID-19.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") Issues Additional Guidance
: On July 2nd, OSHA published its
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for workers and employers, addressing common questions relating to various stages of the reopening process such as "Where can workers find general information about protecting themselves at work during the COVID-19 pandemic?" These questions are addressed from the viewpoints of both the employer and the employee.
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RECENT STATE OF FLORIDA GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
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Extension of Foreclosure and Eviction Tolling: Governor DeSantis extended the suspension and tolling of all foreclosures and residential evictions until August 1, 2020. 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 26 - July 5) 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.
- Change in Number of Cases from June 25 to July 2, by Zip Code. Click for map.
- Change in Number of Hospitalizations from June 25 to July 2, 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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