Release:
Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today signed three Executive Orders relating to COVID-19 in Georgia. The first, Executive Order 03.31.21.01, extends the Public Health State of Emergency through April 30, 2021. The second, Executive Order 03.31.21.02, extends the current COVID-19 guidance in Georgia until April 7 with an added provision allowing state agency employees to get a COVID vaccine without using sick leave or annual leave. The third order, Executive Order 03.31.21.03, will become effective on April 8 and will roll back many of the current COVID-19 restrictions in place.
The Governor’s Executive Orders are available to read here. More details on all three Executive Orders are below:
| ▪ | Extends Georgia’s Public Health State of Emergency through April 30, 2021 |
| ▪ | Extends current COVID-19 guidance through April 7, 2021 |
| ▪ | Provides a mechanism for allowing state agency employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine without using sick leave or annual leave |
| ▪ | Will become effective April 8 through April 30, 2021 |
| ▪ | Eliminates the Gatherings ban |
| ▪ | Eliminates Shelter-in-Place requirements |
| ▪ | Removes the critical infrastructure distinction and collapses all organization suggested measures into one main list, with a small number of additional industry-specific requirements remaining |
| ▪ | Reduces any remaining distance requirements (i.e. distance between parties at restaurants, bars, and movie theaters, and between patrons of group fitness classes) |
| ▪ | Eliminates the ability of law enforcement to close an organization for failure to comply with the Executive Order provisions |
