The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code § 22.0035(b)
- Issued
- 2020-09-17 Sept. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-09-17 (immediately; diversion procedures phased in by county) (read as 2020-09-17)
- End
- Renewed continuously (Thirty-Seventh, Thirty-Ninth, Forty-Second, Forty-Fourth Emergency Orders) into 2022 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Sept. 17, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- justice courts and county courts
- landlords and tenants
- Functions reached
- PM property management
- SV servicing and collections
- CT courts
- Collection
- Texas TX
Operative words
3.... in an effort to curb the possible surge of evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, assist Texas's most vulnerable tenants, and provide landlords with an alternative to eviction, the Court establishes the Texas Eviction Diversion Program and adopts the procedures set forth in this Order.... 5. In any action for eviction... a.... a sworn... petition must state that the plaintiff has reviewed the information about the Texas Eviction Diversion Program... c.... the judge must... discuss the Texas Eviction Diversion Program with the plaintiff and defendant... [and if both express interest] (A) abate the eviction action for 60 days; (B) make all court records... confidential.
Enforcement
Mandatory pleading, citation and abatement procedures
Notes
Establishes the mandatory eviction-diversion procedure in force in every later quarter; the same order series implemented the CDC eviction moratorium's sworn-statement requirements (paragraphs not printed)