The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 81.002, 81.003(7), 81.082(d); Governor's disaster proclamation of March 13, 2020 (Ex. TX-001)
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- 30 days, renewable (§ 81.082(d)). (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises
- Character
- executive declaration
- Collection
- Standing duties: Texas DUT-TX
Operative words
has created an immediate threat, poses a high risk of death to a large number of people and creates a substantial risk of public exposure because of the disease's method of transmission and evidence that there is community spread in Texas.
Penalty
What it required
The Commissioner's determination under § 81.003(7)(B) that COVID-19 presented an immediate threat, which with the Governor's disaster declaration constituted a 'public health disaster' and activated the enlarged control-measure powers of §§ 81.082(d), 81.084(b) and (d-1) and 81.085(i) over persons and property statewide. Character as recorded: executive_declaration (Commissioner's public health disaster declaration activating Health & Safety Code ch. 81 control-measure powers; statutory_duty layer).
Retrieval noteThe declaration is a scanned image PDF without a text layer; the live URL now returns DSHS's 'Page Not Found' page, and repeated raw fetches of the March 24, 2020 Wayback capture failed during this session. The quotation is the declaration's language as quoted by DSHS in its own release (Ex. DUT-TX-008), which also records the § 81.002 citation. Retrieve the snapshot and upgrade to verified_primary; the renewal declarations should be collected with it.