Mask mandate ends as businesses allowed to open 100% Texas mask mandate ends, businesses allowed to open 100% By Michael Cantu | March 10, 2021 at 7:25 AM CST - Updated March 10 at 7:44 AM LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - For the first time since March of 2020 businesses in Texas will be allowed to fully re-open. Gov. Gregg Abbott’s executive ordered, announced March 2, goes into effect today. Now all businesses in the state can fully-open and face masks are no longer mandated in public. However, business owners still have the option to limit capacity inside establishments and require patrons to wear masks. And if COVID-19 hospitalizations start to increase and make up for than 15% of all hospitalizations in a