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Texans Die from Heat Exhaustion After Governor Bans Water Breaks
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Not to belittle the heat wave, the effect of the water break change doesn’t come into effect o until September. So they aren’t really related as of yet, other than shitty and coincidental timing.
There’s multiple sources mentioning this. But here’s one.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/
Also doesn't the law deal with water breaks at work? OPs examples were all people doing their own thing. I think we're all in agreement though that if people are dying from the heat right now that it will get a lot worse once this legislation takes effect.