The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code § 22.0035(b)
- Issued
- 2021-07-19 July 19, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-01
- End
- 2021-10-01 (superseded by the Forty-Third effective Oct. 1, 2021) (read as 2021-10-01)
- In force
- Aug. 1, 2021 to Oct. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all Texas courts
- jurors, parties and counsel
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Travel, gatherings, courts and public offices ECO-C
Operative words
Except in a non-binding jury proceeding, a court may not permit or require a petit juror to appear remotely unless the court ensures that all potential and selected petit jurors have access to technology to participate remotely.... This Order is effective August 1, 2021, and expires October 1, 2021, except as otherwise stated herein, unless extended by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.... All previously adopted local plans and minimum standard health protocols will expire on September 1, 2021, unless readopted
Enforcement
Order of the Supreme Court of Texas
Notes
Q3 2021 instrument: Texas courts operated under emergency modification of jury-related deadlines and procedures through Oct. 1, 2021, with jury-related and pretrial deadline modifications authorized to Jan. 1, 2022.