What happened on Friday, 01 October 2021
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
The Public Health committee advanced SB 7‑31, which would create a statutory privacy right for COVID‑19 vaccination status and a private right of action for retaliation; the Department of Health raised operational and federal‑funding concerns.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
DPH COVID Task Force prioritizes vaccinations and safe school reopenings for high-risk areas.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
A Senate committee voted to advance Senate Bill 732, which would bar employers from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations of employees or customers, after hours of testimony from health workers, business representatives and citizens on safety, liberty and legal preemption concerns.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
City updates air operations, transportation support, and heat response strategies for emergencies
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
Dr. Andy Tenner and Adrienne Bikelli provide a COVID task force update.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
Council discusses pandemic response, wildfire planning, and recognizes disaster service workers.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
City announces heat action plan focusing on long-term climate resilience and community readiness.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Lawmakers debated competing approaches to quarantine rules, testing and exemptions — including shifting quarantine authority to local school boards, establishing proof‑of‑immunity exemptions, and setting state reimbursement rules for testing — with agency witnesses warning of costs and operational issues; one sponsor’s local‑control quarantine bill failed for lack of a motion, while a related, more comprehensive bill was later passed out as amended.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The Information and Guidance unit and Equity and Neighborhoods team honored for pivotal COVID-19 work.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The Disaster Council reflects on COVID-19 response and prepares for future challenges.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
Council members address new air conditioning units for senior centers amid heat challenges
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
San Francisco Fire Department reports ongoing mutual aid deployments amid critical wildfire season.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
Brian Strong details San Francisco's compliance with soft story retrofit and future concrete safety plans.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
City highlights coordination successes and areas for improvement in emergency management response.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
SB 7‑30 would add an exemption in state unemployment law clarifying that employees terminated for refusing a COVID‑19 vaccine may remain eligible for unemployment benefits; the committee adopted an emergency‑clause amendment and passed the bill as amended.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The Disaster Council recognized the Department of Public Health��information-and-guidance (ING) branch and the Equity and Neighborhoods team for contributions to testing, vaccination, culturally competent outreach, and pandemic communications; DPH and DEM leaders previewed next steps in recovery and planning.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The city reported ongoing wildfire mutual-aid deployments and staffing challenges, and the chief resilience officer updated the council that the soft-story retrofit deadline passed (affecting about 5,000 buildings and ~112,000 residents) with high permit-submission rates; the city also outlined a concrete-buildings program and a year-long heat and air-quality resilience planning effort.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The Department of Public Health described its COVID Task Force transition from a large unified command to a department-centered task force prioritizing vaccination outreach in highly impacted communities, low-barrier testing, monitoring variants and an after-action report due before Thanksgiving; the city confirmed an existing PPE stockpile but said it will move to targeted prepositioning rather than indefinite bulk storage.
San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California
The Department of Emergency Management outlined revisions to emergency support functions: ESF 6 (mass care/housing) updates to include non-congregate sheltering, ESF 7 (logistics) drafts due to stakeholders by December, and ESF 16 (community support) extensive revisions starting January 2022; tsunami maps and an air operations annex were also scheduled for completion.