SB 1362

Abstract

Employers; reporting outbreaks of COVID-19. Requires that, upon determination that a worksite cluster of COVID-19 has occurred at a workplace with 50 or more employees, the Department of Health (the Department) shall make a report available to the public on a website maintained by the Department that includes (i) the name of the employer at which a worksite cluster has been reported and (ii) the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported by such employer. The Department shall also report when previously reported outbreaks are under control. The bill defines "worksite cluster" as five or more cases with illness onset or initial positive results within a 14-day period and a likely epidemiologic linkage between cases. The bill provides that the provisions of the act shall expire upon expiration of the Governor's declared state of emergency in response to the continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Employers; reporting outbreaks of COVID-19;emergency. Requires employers to report for each worksite with30 or more employees, or for any multi-employer worksite with 30 or more combined employees, to the local health department when theworksite has had three or more confirmed cases of COVID-19. The employeris required to make such report within 24 hours of becoming awareof such cases. The bill requires the State Department of Health tocompile such reports and to make a weekly report available to thepublic with the compiled information. The bill contains an emergency clause.