{"id":"TX-061","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Texas","authority":"Tex. Gov\u0027t Code § 22.0035(b)","instrument":"Twenty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 20-9135","title":"Twenty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster","dateIssued":"2020-11-11","effective":"2020-11-11 (immediately)","end":"2021-02-01 (renewed by the Thirty-Third Emergency Order)","startDate":"2020-11-11","endDate":"2021-02-01","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all courts","jurors"],"clause":"4. Courts must not conduct in-person proceedings contrary to the Guidance for All Court Proceedings During COVID-19 Pandemic issued by the Office of Court Administration... Prior to holding any in-person proceedings, a court must submit an operating plan... Courts must continue to use all reasonable efforts to conduct proceedings remotely.... 6. A justice or municipal court must not hold an in-person jury proceeding, including jury selection or a jury trial, prior to February 1. 7. [Other courts] must not conduct an in-person jury proceeding unless: a. the local administrative district judge... has... submitted a plan for conducting jury proceedings... b.... the court has obtained prior approval for that jury proceeding from the local administrative district judge; c. not more than five days before the jury proceeding, the local administrative district judge... has certified that local conditions and plan precautions are appropriate.","enforcement":"Court order","functions":["CT courts (winter 2020-21 jury suspension in justice and municipal courts; approved-plan requirement elsewhere)","PJ litigation","SV collections"],"notes":"The winter 2020-21 re-tightening in the courts","sourceUrl":"https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1450050/209135.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":157042,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"TX","url":"/library/TX-061","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/TX-061","citation":"Supreme Court of Texas, Twenty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 20-9135 (Nov. 11, 2020) (Ex. TX-061)","stateName":"Texas","related":["TX-060","TX-062"]}