Non-essential businesses were allowed to reopen on May 1 with limited capacity, as ordered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. On April 27, Gov. Abbott issued Executive Order GA-18, which provides for an expanded reopening of the state’s economy as part of a “safe, strategic plan to Open Texas” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Phase I of Abbott’s plan to open Texas, restaurants, retail stores, shopping malls and movie theaters are allowed to reopen with a limit of 25% capacity. Gyms, bars, barbershops and salons are still closed by executive order. Gov. Abbott suggested in his address on April 27 ...