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“Texas Is Open 100%” – Texan Businesses Banned from Requiring Vaccine Passports

by Michael Curzon
8 June 2021 11:44 AM

All government entities and private businesses in Texas are now banned from requiring proof of vaccination as a condition for service or entry, with Governor Greg Abbott declaring that the state is “open 100%”. The Epoch Times has the story.

“Texas is open 100%, and we want to make sure you have the freedom to go where you want without limits,” the Republican Governor announced in a video post on Twitter.

Texas is open 100%.

Texans should have the freedom to go where they want without any limits, restrictions, or requirements.

Today, I signed a law that prohibits any TX business or gov’t entity from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information. pic.twitter.com/JQXOe4cHgY

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 7, 2021

The Lone Star state in March ended its statewide mask mandate and allowed all businesses to open at full capacity after having implemented mandates and restrictions due to the pandemic.

Abbott announced on Monday with the signing of the legislation that “no business or government entity can require a person to provide a vaccine passport or any other vaccine information as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place”.

The new law SB 968 covers many aspects of the public health disaster and public health emergency preparedness and response. It was approved unanimously in April and was passed by a vote of 146-2 by the state House in May.

Effective immediately, Texas businesses “may not require a customer to provide any documentation certifying the customer’s Covid vaccination or post-transmission recovery on entry to, to gain access to, or to receive service from the business”, the legislation states. State agencies in charge of different business sectors can require that businesses comply with the new law as a condition to be authorised to conduct business in Texas.

Furthermore, businesses that don’t comply with the law will not be able to enter any state contracts and will be ineligible to receive a grant.

Businesses can still implement their own Covid infection control protocols “in accordance with state and federal law to protect public health”.

Abbott had signed an executive order in April that banned government entities from requiring vaccine passports as a condition to receive services or gain entry to premises. The order included any private businesses that receive public funding. But the executive order did not apply to entirely private businesses, which the new law covers with regard to vaccine passports.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: TexasVaccineVaccine Passports

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richardw53
richardw53
2 years ago

This is a classic symptom of an excessively siloed organisation. Targets are distributed to the relevant silos, which then execute plans to address the targets in splendid isolation. Strong organisations have multi disciplinary and multi departmental ‘boards’ that can review the individual execution plans and adjust them in the context of actual demand and the plans of other departmental silos. The board needs also to carry the operational responsibility for the hospitals and services, so they have an existential interest in making sure everything works together.

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
2 years ago
Reply to  richardw53

Or where no one is accountable for the bottom line and they can spend other people’s money freely. A bit like the entire public sector.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
2 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Looks like the downvoter works in the public sector.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  richardw53

‘… of an excessively siloed organisation. .’

Typo? I think you mean ‘soiled’.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  richardw53

Good old school highly centralised command and control Socialism is how the NHS “works”. Of course, it doesn’t. It’s massively over-bureaucratised, and Blair’s managerialism runs the show.

RUH in Bath. Senior nurse of over 20 years experience; I asked her what she thought of NHS management.

“Managers? Dickheads with clipboard who stop me working”

All you need in a nutshell. Though one could add, that these managers get huge salaries and pensions. Reward for ensuring the NHS does not work.

French insurance based system works just fine…

“Why the Health Service works in France”
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/why-the-health-service-works-in-france-11-2022/

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
2 years ago

“Unfortunately, as it should have perceived beforehand and soon discovered, there weren’t enough doctors and nurses to staff these facilities.” Perceived? No, all it needed was a health ministry analyst with a pencil, the back of an old envelope and 5 minutes to spare. They were probably otherwise engaged making midazolam consumption forecasts.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

No need for the calculation, they knew already.

Since the 1990s the aim – consecutive Governments’ policy – has been to reduce bed numbers and medical and nursing staff levels because State funded/provided healthcare to deliver what it promises is unaffordable. 80% of expenditure is the payroll expense.

This is why Winter ‘flu crises have become endemic (sorry) in the NHS over the last three decades whereas not prior.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Well of course they were not needed.

when retired senior retired nurses offered their services, even for the mundane job of administering vaccine, they were required to submit to ludicrous personal checks; so one I know walked away.

M I can see it now in WWII when a volunteer tried to join the RAF:

yes sir, well I appreciate you want to do your bit but we have to ask if you have any bad feelings towards the Germans. You do, well sorry Sir you are not the sort we want. By the way, are you a Nazi?

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

“Back in the scary but innocent days of March 2020”

scary because freedom loving Boris became the Dictator he always wanted to be.

innocent because so many people were too stupid to see what was happening

*****
Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

When the “Nightingale” hospitals were created, it looked like a budgetary exercise by the MoD, with the Spring budget being just round the corner (although it never happened, because of the Lockdown etc). Demonstrating what they could do might have helped them out if financial cuts were on the agenda.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

I’ve alway considered that a publicity stunt: By that time, large hospitals had reportedly been erected very quickly in China and the associated background whisper was They could never do this in England because The English System[tm] is so irrational and inefficient. Hence, someone set forth to demontrate that the British military still has the capacity for money-burning exercises like this. An anglo-sino military PR war, so to say.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

Good! It’s just what the Our™️ NHS besotted, idiot British public deserve. More please.

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The old bat
The old bat
2 years ago

I would have thought that one of the reasons private hospitals aren’t bedeviled with infections is because the majority of rooms are single with private bathrooms. The ward lavatories at our local big county hospital are filthy and smelly and compare badly with the average public lavatory, it’s no wonder that stomach bugs go round the place like wildfire.
I can never understand why the Victorian ward system still exists in the UK. It is dehumanising, noisy, lacking in privacy and undignified, especially on mixed wards, which are still around, despite protestations to the contrary.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

The story I have been told was that govt bought the private beds en bloc specifically to ensure they were not made available to paying customers. Obviously the intentions were very honest and not in the slightest underhanded.

Of course not.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

When pressure on the NHS is used to justify all kinds of experimental social engineering measures, mass-selling of useless pseudo-medical products like face masks and covaxxes and also, as covert driver all kinds of other policies some people always wanted to see implemented, eg, the teetotaller agenda or banning fireworks (Germany), anything which could relieve pressure on the NHS must be highly unwelcome. Methinks the scandal is not so much that the NHS couldn’t get this organized but that it didn’t want to get it organized.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 years ago

Anyone surprised?

this was the public sector. And the NHS worst of all.

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