Governor Ducey repealed 25 pandemic-related Executive Orders last week. Many of them were repealed after the legislature locked some into state law, like restricting universities and K-12 from managing COVID spread in their systems. Additional rescinded Executive Orders include:
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Executive Order, which 2020-17 deferred requirements to renew state agency and board licenses that had an expiration date between March 1, 2020, and September 1, 2020, by six months from the expiration date, unless those requirements could be completed online. The timeframe for the deferrals lapsed on March 1, 2021.
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Executive Order 2020-28, which addressed critical demand for nursing home and long-term care facility staff, allowing caregiver trainees to utilize on-the-job training to meet a certification program. This policy was codified through legislation in 2020.
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Executive Order 2020-58, which ensured cost-sharing requirements, such as co-pays and co-insurance, for the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy was codified by congress through the CARES Act.
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Executive Order 2020-20, which allowed pharmacists to dispense emergency refills of maintenance medications for up to 180 days, minimizing unnecessary trips to the doctor. With legislation expanding the availability of telemedicine, obtaining refills is now more accessible.
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Executive Order 2021-14, which is the Enhanced Surveillance Advisory Order stays in place for now. Those continue to require hospitals, testing laboratories and other health facilities to provide detailed information and data related to COVID-19. The public health surveillance requirements (case reporting) continues to be needed because the ADHS has not conducted a rulemaking to make COVID-19 reportable. Also, ADHS still hasn’t placed COVID community control measures in rule yet, making it still unclear what county health department control measures should be.
