Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
It appears that the Minimum Standard Health Protocols for “bars or similar establishments” issued by the office of Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott’s office, intended to help mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus in bars as they were allowed to begin reopening Friday, May 22 — have changed.
Those standards initially required bar staff to “Physically block off the bar and remove or block bar stools so customers may neither sit nor stand at the bar itself.” Now, however, it appears that patrons can