The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code ch. 418
- Issued
- 2020-09-17 Sept. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-09-17
- End
- Continued by GA-32 (Oct. 7, 2020); rescinded by GA-34 (Mar. 10, 2021) (read as 2021-03-31)
- In force
- Sept. 17, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitHealth care orders
- Addressees
- hospitals in Trauma Service Areas with high hospitalizations
- Functions reached
- SX
- IP 15 percent reserve
- CB
- Collection
- Hospitals and Health Systems SEC-01
Operative words
[recites the June 30 expansion of] postponement of certain surgeries and procedures in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Travis counties [to] counties within Trauma Service Areas J, K, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V... [hospitals in areas with high hospitalizations] shall postpone all surgeries and procedures that are not medically necessary... 'Areas with high hospitalizations' means any Trauma Service Area that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity exceeds 15 percent.
Enforcement
Notes
Regional trigger regime for the winter 2020-21 surge (El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo, Laredo, the Rio Grande Valley and others were 'areas with high hospitalizations' for weeks).