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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-010	Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Cosmetology Salons/Hair Salons (revised May 5, 2020)Minimum Standard Health Protocols - Checklist for Cosmetology Salons/Hair Salons	Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation	Texas; Governor's Strike Force to Open Texas, posted and applied by TDLR (cosmetology program)State	May 5, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Context (guidance or announcement)Capacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-011	Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Barber Shops (revised May 5, 2020)Minimum Standard Health Protocols - Checklist for Barber Shops	Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); TDLR	Texas; Governor's Strike Force to Open Texas, posted and applied by TDLR (barber program)State	May 5, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Context (guidance or announcement)Capacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-012	Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Nail Salons (revised May 5, 2020)Minimum Standard Health Protocols - Checklist for Nail Salons	Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); TDLR	Texas; Governor's Strike Force to Open Texas, posted and applied by TDLR (cosmetology program, nail salons)State	May 5, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Context (guidance or announcement)Capacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-AUS-005	Stay Home - Work Safe Order No. 20200508-011Stay Home - Work Safe Order (Governor's reopening phase incorporated; distancing, hygiene and face-covering behaviors ordered; test-result…	Mayor Steve Adler	City of Austin, TexasCity	May 8, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-AUS-041	County Judge Order 2020-8, Relating to the Declaration regarding COVID-19 (Stay Home Order Consistent with and Guidance Beyond Governor's Executive Orders)Stay Home Order Consistent with and Guidance Beyond Governor's Executive Orders (May 8 to June 15, 2020)	Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt	Travis County, TexasCounty	May 8, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-AUS-064	County Judge Order No. 2020-9 Relating to Notices to Vacate, Eviction Proceedings in response to COVID-19Order prohibiting the issuance of notices to vacate and related landlord actions (through June 1, 2020)	Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt	Travis County, TexasCounty	May 8, 2020	2020 Q2	Courts and public officesOther	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-062	Governor's release, 'Governor Abbott, Texas National Guard Launch Disinfection Mission For Nursing Facilities'Activation of Guard Facilities Disinfection Teams (Joint Task Force 176) to disinfect nursing homes in coordination with HHSC; recital of…	Governor Greg Abbott (with Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris)	Texas (Governor; Texas National Guard; Health and Human Services Commission); State levelState	May 13, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Context (guidance or announcement)Health care ordersOther	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017	TSBP Guidance Statements re: COVID-19 (Issued May 15, 2020)Guidance Statements re: COVID-19: dispensing in compliance with Emergency Board Rule 291.30 (hydroxychloroquine); diagnosis verification…	Texas State Board of Pharmacy	Texas State Board of Pharmacy; State levelSector regulator	May 15, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Health care ordersSupply chain	Primary source read
Ex. MET-DFW-018	Supplemental Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins on Food Processing PlantsSupplemental Order on Food Processing Plants	Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins	Dallas County, TexasCounty	May 15, 2020	2020 Q2	Workplace rulesSupply chain	Primary source read
Ex. MET-DFW-083	Disaster Declaration and Executive Order of the Denton County Commissioners Court (May 12, 2020)Disaster declaration continued through June 2, 2020	Denton County Judge Andy Eads and Denton County Commissioners Court	Denton County, TexasCounty	May 12, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declaration	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE-004	News release, 'Texas State Parks to Allow Limited Overnight Camping Starting May 18'Texas State Parks to Allow Limited Overnight Camping Starting May 18	Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Carter Smith, Executive Director)	Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (State agency)State	May 6, 2020	2020 Q2	Context (guidance or announcement)Business closureCapacity limitFace-covering requirement	Primary source read
Ex. MET-HOU-058	A Letter from the METRO Board Chair: How METRO Has Responded to the COVID-19 Outbreak, with fact sheetLetter from the METRO Board Chair and COVID-19 fact sheet	METRO Board Chair	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)Sector regulator	May 18, 2020	2020 Q2	Other	Primary source read
Ex. TX-016	Executive Order GA-23Relating to the expanded opening of Texas in response to the COVID-19 disaster	Governor Greg Abbott	TexasState	May 18, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsEvents and venues	Primary source read
Ex. MET-HOU-014	Order Extending Declaration of Local Disaster for Public Health Emergency to June 10, 2020Order Extending Declaration of Local Disaster for Public Health Emergency to June 10, 2020	Harris County Commissioners Court (agenda letter of May 13, 2020 and order)	Harris County, TexasCounty	May 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declaration	Primary source read
Ex. MET-SAT-020	Executive Order NW-08Executive Order NW-08 of County Judge Nelson W. Wolff	County Judge Nelson W. Wolff	Bexar County, TexasCounty	May 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-SAT-021	Emergency Order No. 7: Seventh Declaration of Public Health Emergency (adopting GA-23), with Exhibit 1Declaration of Public Health Emergency Regarding COVID-19 (Emergency Order #7)	Mayor Ron Nirenberg	City of San Antonio, TexasCity	May 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declarationCapacity limitGathering cap	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-ALCOHOL-003	Emergency amendment to 16 TAC § 50.28 (Verification and Expiration of Seller Server Certificates)Emergency Rule extending the expiration of seller server certificates during the COVID-19 shutdown	Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission	Texas (State alcoholic-beverage regulator)Sector regulator	May 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Workplace rulesOther	Primary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-040	Misc. Docket No. 20-9069, Final Approval of the Rules Governing the Supervised Practice of Law by Qualified Law Students and Qualified Unlicensed Law School Graduates in Texas (preliminarily adopted Apr. 29, 2020 in Misc. Docket No. 20-9060 with the bar-exam postponement)Final Approval of the Rules Governing the Supervised Practice of Law by Qualified Law Students and Qualified Unlicensed Law School Graduates…	Supreme Court of Texas (Hecht, C.J.)	Texas; Supreme Court of Texas (bar admission)Court	May 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Courts and public officesOther	Primary source read
Ex. MET-DFW-019	Supplemental Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins on Continuing RequirementsSupplemental Order on Continuing Requirements (May 20, 2020)	Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins	Dallas County, TexasCounty	May 20, 2020	2020 Q2	Schools and child careHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationOther	Primary source read
Ex. MET-HOU-012	Fourth Amended Stay Home, Work Safe OrderFourth Amended Stay Home, Work Safe Order	County Judge Lina Hidalgo	Harris County, TexasCounty	May 21, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitGathering capEvents and venues	Primary source read
Ex. MET-HOU-013	Order Providing Guidance for Harris County's Construction WorkforceOrder Providing Guidance for Harris County's Construction Workforce	County Judge Lina Hidalgo	Harris County, TexasCounty	May 21, 2020	2020 Q2	Workplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-HOU-070	Order Providing Guidance for Reopening Retail BusinessesOrder Providing Guidance for Reopening Retail Businesses	County Judge Lina Hidalgo	Harris County, TexasCounty	May 21, 2020	2020 Q2	Workplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. TX-017	Executive Order GA-24Relating to the termination of air travel restrictions as part of the safe, strategic plan to Open Texas in response to the COVID-19…	Governor Greg Abbott	TexasState	May 21, 2020	2020 Q2	Travel and quarantine	Primary source read
Ex. TX-018	Executive Order GA-25Relating to the closing of county and municipal jails to in-person visitation in response to the COVID-19 disaster	Governor Greg Abbott	TexasState	May 22, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Gathering capCourts and public offices	Primary source read
Ex. TX-059	Seventeenth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 20-9071Seventeenth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster	Supreme Court of Texas	TexasCourt	May 26, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Gathering capCourts and public offices	Primary source read

Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Cosmetology Salons/Hair Salons (revised May 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-010)
Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); TDLR, Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Barber Shops (revised May 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-011)
Governor Greg Abbott (Strike Force to Open Texas); TDLR, Minimum Standard Health Protocols: Checklist for Nail Salons (revised May 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-012)
Mayor Steve Adler, Stay Home - Work Safe Order No. 20200508-011 (May 8, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-005)
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, County Judge Order 2020-8, Relating to the Declaration regarding COVID-19 (Stay Home Order Consistent with and Guidance Beyond Governor's Executive Orders) (May 8, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-041)
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, County Judge Order No. 2020-9 Relating to Notices to Vacate, Eviction Proceedings in response to COVID-19 (May 8, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-064)
Governor Greg Abbott (with Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris), Governor's release, 'Governor Abbott, Texas National Guard Launch Disinfection Mission For Nursing Facilities' (May 13, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-062)
Texas State Board of Pharmacy, TSBP Guidance Statements re: COVID-19 (Issued May 15, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017)
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Supplemental Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins on Food Processing Plants (May 15, 2020) (Ex. MET-DFW-018)
Denton County Judge Andy Eads and Denton County Commissioners Court, Disaster Declaration and Executive Order of the Denton County Commissioners Court (May 12, 2020) (Ex. MET-DFW-083)
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Carter Smith, Executive Director), News release, 'Texas State Parks to Allow Limited Overnight Camping Starting May 18' (May 6, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE-004)
METRO Board Chair, A Letter from the METRO Board Chair: How METRO Has Responded to the COVID-19 Outbreak, with fact sheet (May 18, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-058)
Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-23 (May 18, 2020) (Ex. TX-016)
Harris County Commissioners Court (agenda letter of May 13, 2020 and order), Order Extending Declaration of Local Disaster for Public Health Emergency to June 10, 2020 (May 19, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-014)
County Judge Nelson W. Wolff, Executive Order NW-08 (May 19, 2020) (Ex. MET-SAT-020)
Mayor Ron Nirenberg, Emergency Order No. 7: Seventh Declaration of Public Health Emergency (adopting GA-23), with Exhibit 1 (May 19, 2020) (Ex. MET-SAT-021)
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Emergency amendment to 16 TAC § 50.28 (Verification and Expiration of Seller Server Certificates) (May 20, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-ALCOHOL-003)
Supreme Court of Texas (Hecht, C.J.), Misc. Docket No. 20-9069, Final Approval of the Rules Governing the Supervised Practice of Law by Qualified Law Students and Qualified Unlicensed Law School Graduates in Texas (preliminarily adopted Apr. 29, 2020 in Misc. Docket No. 20-9060 with the bar-exam postponement) (May 20, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-040)
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Supplemental Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins on Continuing Requirements (May 20, 2020) (Ex. MET-DFW-019)
County Judge Lina Hidalgo, Fourth Amended Stay Home, Work Safe Order (May 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-012)
County Judge Lina Hidalgo, Order Providing Guidance for Harris County's Construction Workforce (May 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-013)
County Judge Lina Hidalgo, Order Providing Guidance for Reopening Retail Businesses (May 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-070)
Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-24 (May 21, 2020) (Ex. TX-017)
Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-25 (May 22, 2020) (Ex. TX-018)
Supreme Court of Texas, Seventeenth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 20-9071 (May 26, 2020) (Ex. TX-059)

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