The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Executive Orders GA-17 and GA-18 (DSHS 'minimum standard health protocols' incorporated by GA-18, GA-21, GA-23, GA-26, GA-28, GA-30, GA-32)
- Issued
- 2020-04-27 Apr. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-01 (with GA-18) (read as 2020-05-01)
- End
- Protocols became recommendations under GA-34 (2021-03-10) (read as 2021-03-10)
- In force
- May 1, 2020 to Mar. 10, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- reopened businesses (retail, restaurants, theaters, malls, museums, libraries, offices, churches, golf, single-person offices) and their customers and employees
- Functions reached
- HK operating protocols for every reopened sector
- SF/DR/PE/ML capacity and distancing
- HR screening and training
- EMP written protocols
- Collection
- Texas TX
Operative words
(Report read in part: sector checklists of 'minimum standard health protocols' for employers, employees and customers, incorporated by reference in GA-18 through GA-32 as the standards businesses 'should' follow; the orders' occupancy limits are mandatory, the protocols are the required-good-faith standard.)
Enforcement
Incorporated by GA-18 ('should follow the minimum standard health protocols recommended by DSHS') through GA-32; local officials enforced the executive orders
Notes
The State's sector-by-sector operating rules for Phase I; the successor checklists at open.texas.gov (restaurants, retail, offices, manufacturing, gyms, salons, churches, child care) not saved (archive throttled)
Retrieval noteReport retrieved from the Governor's site; read for structure, not line by line.