The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code ch. 418
- Issued
- 2020-10-07 Oct. 7, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-14
- End
- Rescinded by GA-34 effective Mar. 10, 2021 (read as 2021-03-10)
- In force
- Oct. 14, 2020 to Mar. 10, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitHealth care ordersAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- businesses and hospitals in Trauma Service Areas with high hospitalizations
- Functions reached
- SX (GA-31 postponement continued in high-hospitalization areas)
- IP
- CB (business occupancy rolled back to 50 percent in those areas)
- Collection
- Hospitals and Health Systems SEC-01
Operative words
'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, until such time as the Trauma Service Area has seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity is 15 percent or less.
Enforcement
Notes
Hospital census was the statutory trigger for the business rollbacks of Q4 2020-Q1 2021 across Texas.