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MINNESOTA  Gov. Tim Walz ended the state’s general mask mandate May 14, 2021. The Minnesota Department of Health recommends masking "in some settings and situations," in accordance

with CDC guidelines. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Duluth lifted municipal mask orders in February 2022. LEARN MORE: Read the state health department's mask recommendations.

MISSISSIPPI  A statewide order mandating indoor masking in counties with high COVID-19 case rates expired in March 2021. LEARN MORE: Read Mississippi’s COVID-19 prevention guidelines.

MISSOURI  St. Louis County's indoor mask mandate ended Feb. 28, 2022. Kansas City and surrounding Jackson County lifted general mask orders in November 2021. LEARN MORE: Read the

Missouri health department's COVID-19 prevention guidance. MONTANA  Gov. Greg Gianforte rescinded the state’s mask mandate Feb. 12, 2021, and signed legislation the following May

invalidating local mask mandates, effectively ending face-covering orders in Gallatin, Missoula and other counties. LEARN MORE: Read Montana's COVID-19 guidance. NEBRASKA  Local indoor

mask orders in Omaha and Lincoln were lifted in February 2022. LEARN MORE: Read the Nebraska health department's guidance on COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory illnesses. NEVADA 

Then-Gov. Steve Sisolak ended the state’s mask mandate on Feb. 10, 2022. Before that, Nevadans over age 9 were required to mask up in indoor public places, regardless of their vaccination

status, in counties that met the CDC criteria for high or substantial rates of COVID-19 transmission.  LEARN MORE: See the Nevada health department's COVID-19 page. NEW HAMPSHIRE  

Then-Gov. Chris Sununu allowed New Hampshire's the state's mask mandate to expire April 16, 2021, about six months after it was implemented. The cities of Keene and Nashua lifted

mask mandates covering local indoor public facilities in February 2022. LEARN MORE: See New Hampshire's COVID-19 response page. NEW JERSEY  Gov. Phil Murphy announced in April 2023 that

the state had ended a mask requirement for health care facilities. He lifted New Jersey's general face-covering order May 28, 2021. The city of Newark lifted its indoor mask mandate

March 2, 2022. LEARN MORE: Read New Jersey's COVID-19 guidelines. NEW MEXICO  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham lifted the state's indoor mask order Feb. 17, 2022. Mask mandates covering

"congregate settings" such as hospitals, long-term care facilities and detention centers expired March 31, 2023, with the end of the state’s public health emergency. LEARN MORE: 

Read New Mexico's COVID-19 prevention toolkit. NEW YORK  A statewide mask requirement for staff and visitors at health care facilities, including nursing homes, expired Feb. 12, 2023,

about a year after Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted the state's general indoor mask order. Mandates covering public transit, homeless shelters and correctional facilities ended in September

2022. Masks are required at public hospitals, health centers and nursing homes in New York City. The order covers staff and visitors and encompasses facilities operated by NYC Health +

Hospitals, the municipal health system. LEARN MORE: Read New York's COVID-19 prevention guidance. NORTH CAROLINA  Gov. Roy Cooper ended the state's general mask mandate May 14,

2021. Face-covering is no longer required in in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The city of Raleigh and Wake, Durham and Mecklenburg counties dropped local mask orders in early

2022. LEARN MORE: Read North Carolina's COVID-19 guidance. Back to the top NORTH DAKOTA The North Dakota Department of Health recommends residents follow CDC masking guidance. There has

been no statewide mandate since Jan. 18, 2021.  LEARN MORE: See the North Dakota health department’s COVID-19 information page. OHIO The state's mask order expired June 2, 2021, as the

Ohio Department of Health lifted most other pandemic health orders.  LEARN MORE: Read Read the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19 guidance. OKLAHOMA Gov. Kevin Stitt called on Oklahomans

to wear masks in public but rejected calls for a state mandate. Local mask mandates in the state's largest cities, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, ended April 30 and May 1, 2021, respectively.

LEARN MORE: Read the Oklahoma Health Care Authority's COVID-19 guidance. OREGON Then-Gov. Kate Brown lifted the state's mask mandate March 12, 2022. A face-covering requirement

for workers, patients and visitors at health care facilities ended April 3, 2023. LEARN MORE: Read Oregon's mask guidance. PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania's mask mandate was rescinded

June 28, 2021. The state Department of Health recommends that Pennsylvanians follow CDC face-covering guidelines. Philadelphia's most recent indoor mask order was lifted April 22, 2022.

  LEARN MORE: Read the Pennsylvania health department's COVID-19 prevention guidance. PUERTO RICO  Then-Gov. Pedro Pierluisi lifted the territory's face-covering mandate for indoor

public places March 10, 2022. The Department of Health rescinded mask requirements for health care and long-term care facilities on May 11, 2023, when Pierluisi declared an end to Puerto

Rico's COVID-19 emergency. LEARN MORE: Read the governor's order ending Puerto Rico’s state of emergency (Spanish). RHODE ISLAND Gov. Dan McKee's mask-or-vaccine order — which

mandated masking at large indoor businesses but gave smaller establishments an option to require either face-covering or proof of vaccination — expired Feb. 11, 2022, about two months after

it went into effect. The Rhode Island Department of Health recommends masking for visitors and staff at long-term care facilities in times of increasing community spread. LEARN MORE: Read

the state health department’s COVID-19 guidance. SOUTH CAROLINA Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order May 11, 2021, invalidating existing local face-covering rules in several

jurisdictions. Columbia, the state's capital and second-largest city, repealed its indoor mask mandate in November 2021, and a face-covering order in surrounding Richland County expired

in May 2022. LEARN MORE: Read the South Carolina Department of Public Safety's COVID-19 guidance. SOUTH DAKOTA The South Dakota Department of Health website directs users to CDC pages

on masking and other steps to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. LEARN MORE: Read the Read the South Dakota health department's respiratory virus guidance. TENNESSEE Gov. Bill

Lee did not impose a statewide mandate and signed legislation Nov. 12, 2021, that severely limits local governments' authority to enact their own mask rules.  LEARN MORE: Read the

Tennessee health department's COVID-19 guidance. TEXAS A state law that took effect Sept.. 1, 2023, prohibits most state and local government bodies from imposing mask mandates (there

are exceptions for health care, criminal justice and juvenile justice facilities and for residential centers operated by state disability agencies). Gov. Greg Abbott had largely barred

face-covering mandates by executive order in July 2021, four months after he lifted an eight-month statewide mask requirement. LEARN MORE: Read the Texas health department’s COVID-19

guidance and a roundup of Texas’ mask policies. UTAH Utah's order requiring masks in most public settings ended April 10, 2021, five months after it was issued, under a state law that

phased out various COVID-19 public health restrictions. Indoor mask mandates implemented in Salt Lake and Summit counties in January 2022 were overturned by the state legislature. LEARN

MORE: Read Utah's coronavirus guidance. VERMONT Gov. Phil Scott lifted Vermont's mask mandate and all other COVID-19 restrictions June 15, 2021.  LEARN MORE: Read the Vermont

Department of Health's COVID-19 guidance. Back to the top VIRGINIA Then-Gov. Ralph Northam's order ending statewide COVID-19 restrictions took effect May 28, 2021, two weeks after

he effectively lifted Virginia's universal mask mandate to align with CDC guidance at the time.  Shoppers wearing face makes in Arlington, Virginia, in 2020, during the initial months

of the COVID-19 outbreak. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images LEARN MORE: Read the Virginia Department of Health's COVID-19 guidance. WASHINGTON The state lifted its general indoor

mask order March 12, 2022, about three weeks after a mandate for masking at large outdoor events ended. A mask mandate for people age 5 and older in health care, long-term care and

correctional facilities was lifted April 3, 2023. LEARN MORE: Read the state Department of Health's mask guidance. WEST VIRGINIA Then-Gov. Jim Justice signed an executive order June 20,

2021, revoking the state's 11-month-old mask mandate. In its final weeks the directive had covered unvaccinated people age 9 and up in indoor public spaces. LEARN MORE: Read the West

Virginia health department’s COVID-19 guidance. WISCONSIN The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers' mask mandate on March 31, 2021, ruling that Evers overstepped his

authority by repeatedly extending pandemic-related emergency orders without lawmakers’ approval. Indoor mask mandates in the city of Milwaukee and Dane County, which includes Madison,

expired March 1, 2022. Milwaukee County continued to require face-covering on public buses and in the county courthouse until May 9, 2023. LEARN MORE: Read the Wisconsin health

department's COVID-19 guidance. WYOMING Gov. Mark Gordon rescinded the state's 3-month-old mask mandate March 16, 2021. The state health department recommends that residents

"consider wearing a well-fitting face mask that covers your nose and mouth in indoor public settings."  LEARN MORE: Read the Wyoming Department of Health's COVID-19 guidance.

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