After several months of tightening restrictions on Texas businesses meant to stem the spread of the coronavirus, in October 2020, Texas Governor Greg Abbott allowed many businesses to reopen at 75% capacity in Executive Order GA-32. However, in light of worsening COVID hospitalization rates in certain areas of the state, Governor Abbott limited reopening capacity for many businesses located in regions of the state with high COVID-19 hospitalization rates.

In multicounty regions known as Trauma Service Areas (TSAs), in which COVID hospitalizations accounted for more than 15% of total hospital capacity, most businesses were limited to 50% capacity upon reopening. Since October, many of the state’s TSAs reached the 15% threshold and were thus subject to the more restrictive 50% capacity threshold for many reopened businesses. See Jackson Walker’s summary of GA-32 for further information about businesses and other activities which are exempt from GA-32’s capacity limits.

In recent weeks, however, hospitalization numbers have improved in some areas of the state, allowing businesses some TSAs to bypass the 50% capacity limit in favor of the 75% capacity limit allowed by GA-32. The summary below compiles currently-available information about the GA-32 status of each of the state’s TSA regions. A complete list of counties in each TSA region is available here. Although care has been taken to verify this information, hospital capacity is reported on a daily basis and may change.