I have been saying, for a while now, that Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) would eventually reissue his odious mask mandate. He hasn’t yet, but he’s moving closer to it:

Beshear: All employees, visitors again required to wear masks in KY state offices

By Alex Acquisto | July 28, 2021 | 4:11 PM EDT

All Kentucky state employees, including those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, are once again required to wear masks while working indoors, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday.

Additionally, anyone who visits a state building, regardless of their coronavirus vaccination status, must don a mask when inside. The shift in guidance is “to protect [employees] and those they interact with,” Beshear said in a brief video update.

The new requirement, which goes into effect Thursday, came on the heels of a shift in guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which on Tuesday said everyone in the United States, including fully-vaccinated people, should resume wearing masks in public indoor settings in parts of the country where the Delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading quickly.

“That changes a lot,” the governor said Wednesday. “It puts our workforce at risk. It puts your health at risk and it puts at risk our ability to provide services that are desperately needed in-person to the people of the commonwealth.”

Beshear did not explicitly recommend that all Kentuckians, vaccinated and unvaccinated, resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces, as the CDC recommended. But in the past he has largely aligned his state coronavirus mitigation guidance with advice dispensed by the CDC.

There’s more at the original. And it was just two days ago that the Governor said that school districts should consider requiring mask requirements for all indoor activities.

One important difference between the Governor’s previous mask mandates and what he announced today: as the chief executive of the state government, he is the ultimate supervisor for all state office facilities, and there would seem to be little question that his order is legal.