Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly responded to surging coronavirus infections Wednesday with a statewide executive order mandating people wear a mask in public and requiring county commissions to take a public vote if they want to reject the mandate or craft their own measures. Counties have one week to pass their own measure or accept her public-safety directive, which goes into effect the day before Thanksgiving. Kelly signed a comparable mask order in July that lacked instructions for a local government vote, and nearly four of five counties determined masking was unwarranted to stem the tide of COVID-19.
Source: Prairie Village Post
