Hays County Judge Issues Stay At Home Order

Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra has issued a stay-at-home order for residents Wednesday night.

The order, which can be read below, will take effect at 11 PM on March 26 and continue until 4 AM on April 10. 

According to the order, childcare services are among the businesses considered essential and will be allowed to provide services to the community, so long as they employ certain measures. 

The section reads as follows: 

VIII. Childcare Services. Childcare facilities providing services that enable employees exempted in this Order to work as permitted. Except that the following practices shall be observed: 1. Childcare must be carried out in groups of 10 or fewer children, each within the same group each day. Children shall not change from one group to another, and groups shall not co-mingle. If a facility cannot prevent co-mingling of more than one group of children, then that facility should limit its total number of children to 10. Unless necessitated by overriding health and safety considerations, childcare providers shall remain solely with one group of children and not change groups. Please note that, pursuant to Section 6, subsection v, below, a municipality may provide stricter guidelines than this subsection.