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 (renewed by the Forty-Third Emergency Order effective Oct. 1, 2021, Ex. TX-065) (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
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all courts in Texas
- parties, attorneys, witnesses, jurors
- local administrative judges
- Functions reached
- CT courts (remote proceedings, suspended deadlines, local health protocols through Sept. 1, 2021 and beyond if readopted)
- CL closings and litigation-dependent transactions
- PJ litigation projects of law firms
- Collection
- Texas TX
Operative words
3. Subject only to constitutional limitations, all courts in Texas may in any case, civil or criminal, without a participant's consent: a. except as provided in paragraph 4, modify or suspend any and all deadlines and procedures, whether prescribed by statute, rule, or order, for a stated period ending no later than October 1, 2021; b.... allow or require anyone involved in any hearing, deposition, or other proceeding of any kind... to participate remotely... 5. Courts may continue to use reasonable efforts to conduct proceedings remotely. In criminal cases where confinement in jail or prison is a potential punishment, remote jury proceedings must not be conducted without appropriate waivers and consent... 8. This Order is effective August 1, 2021, and expires October 1, 2021... 10. All previously adopted local plans and minimum standard health protocols will expire on September 1, 2021, unless readopted by the local administrative district judge or presiding judge of a municipal court before September 1, 2021.
Enforcement
Court order binding all Texas courts
Notes
In force for the last two months of 2021 Q3; the court itself recites the Governor's continuing disaster declaration in all 254 counties