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Dear Clients and Friends,

Below please find the twenty-first 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 September 14-25, 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.

As the release of mandates by local governments tend to be slowing down, our team will no longer be updating the local government portion of the Legal Compass.  

Please email our team with any questions regarding the below information or any local government actions.


RECENT STATE OF FLORIDA GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
  • State of Florida Moves Into Phase 3: Governor DeSantis took action moving the State of Florida into Phase 3 of the Governor's "Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery."  This Executive Order is effective immediately and has been extended through November 3, 2020. The Executive Order does the following: 
    • Removes state-level restrictions on businesses, such as restaurants.
    • Provides that no COVID-19 emergency ordinance may prevent an individual from working or operating a business.
    • Provides that restaurants may not be limited by a COVID-19 emergency order by any local government to less than 50% of their indoor capacity. If a restaurant is limited to less than 100% of its indoor capacity, such COVID-19 emergency order must satisfy the following:
      • Quantify the economic impact of each limitation or requirements on those restaurants; and
      • Explain why each limitation or requirement is necessary for public health.
    • Suspends the collection of fines and penalties associated with COVID-19 enforced upon individuals.  

    Executive Order 20-244 does not rescind the underlying COVID-19 State of Emergency Executive Order (20-52) that gives the Governor emergency authority related to COVID-19 pandemic. Click for more.
View a comprehensive listing of State of Florida Government Actions that we have collected to date.

View an easy-to-read matrix of the Florida government agency orders that we have collected to date.  Highlighted actions are new (September 18-24) since last issue.

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 September 23, by Zip Code. Click for map.
  • Change in Number of Cases from September 16-23, by Zip Code. Click for map.
  • Change in Number of Hospitalizations from September 16-23, by County. Click for map.
RECENT STEARNS WEAVER MILLER COVID-19 UPDATES
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