When is the record due after a Texas accelerated notice of appeal is filed?

Establish acceleration and Rule 26.1(b) applicability.

Obtain the actual notice-of-appeal filing receipt, distinct from the judgment signing date.

Read the appellate court’s actual record and briefing directions and confirm the clerk and reporter’s required conditions.

1. Establish acceleration and Rule 26.1(b) applicability.
2. Exclude the actual triggering event and count every intermediate calendar day under Rule 4.1(a). Do not import the Civil Rules’ short-period exclusion into appellate computation. A signing, rendition, filing or ruling date must be established from its own actual record. Count ten days from actual notice filing. Intermediate weekends and holidays count; apply the final-day rule separately.
3. Apply Rule 4.1 and establish the actual clerk calendar.
4. Complete the required act in the correct court.

Rule 4.1(a) moves a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next eligible day. Rule 4.1(b) separately extends a filing period when the proper clerk is closed or inaccessible during regular hours on the final day, until the next open and accessible day. Preserve the required proof. The encoded Texas holiday calendar covers 2026 through 2028; it does not know additional local closure or system failure.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. An independently established accelerated notice is actually filed. The actual triggering date is August 2, 2027. Required notice, record requests and fee conditions are satisfied. No Rule 34.5a appendix, extension order, additional closure or timetable restart applies.

Fictitious facts with the stated appeal classification and actual event independently established. No additional closure, order, disputed eligibility or unmodeled restart is assumed.

Clerk and reporter have conditional filing duties

Rule 35.3(a) assigns the clerk’s record to the trial clerk when its notice and fee, arrangement or no-fee-entitlement conditions are satisfied, except the Rule 34.5a appendix branch. Rule 35.3(b) separately assigns the reporter’s record when notice, request and fee, arrangement or entitlement conditions are satisfied.

The appellant’s request is a separate act

Rule 34.6(b) requires the written reporter’s-record request at or before perfecting the appeal and a copy filed with the trial clerk. Designate the required exhibits and, for the stated reporter branch, portions of proceedings. The later record-filing deadline is not permission to postpone that request.

The court can direct a different accelerated record method

Rule 28.1(e) permits an accelerated appeal on forwarded original papers or sworn uncontroverted copies in lieu of the clerk’s record, and permits submission without briefs. Establish the actual court direction rather than assuming it.

An appendix replacing the clerk’s record has another procedure

Rule 34.5a(a) uses an election notice within ten days after the appellant files the notice of appeal. Its original appendix and appellant brief use the separate later-of election-or-reporter event under 34.5a(b). Rule 34.5a(h) excludes preparing or filing a clerk’s record when its appendix is filed. Establish that branch separately.

Accelerated record extensions have a ten-day limit per extension

Rule 35.3(c) allows court extension on the clerk’s or reporter’s request, with each accelerated extension limited to ten days. It must allow late filing for delay not the appellant’s fault and may do so for appellant fault. The actual request, fault and order remain separate from this ordinary-period calculation.

• The calculator does not decide appealability, disputed classification, the merits, entitlement to relief or sufficiency of a filing.
• The consolidation date does not establish applicability of every historical amendment. Read the actual governing edition and orders.

• Establish acceleration and Rule 26.1(b) applicability.
• Obtain the actual notice-of-appeal filing receipt, distinct from the judgment signing date.
• Read the appellate court’s actual record and briefing directions and confirm the clerk and reporter’s required conditions.
• Rule 35.3(a) assigns the clerk’s record to the trial clerk when its notice and fee, arrangement or no-fee-entitlement conditions are satisfied, except the Rule 34.5a appendix branch. Rule 35.3(b) separately assigns the reporter’s record when notice, request and fee, arrangement or entitlement conditions are satisfied.
• Rule 34.6(b) requires the written reporter’s-record request at or before perfecting the appeal and a copy filed with the trial clerk. Designate the required exhibits and, for the stated reporter branch, portions of proceedings. The later record-filing deadline is not permission to postpone that request.
• Rule 28.1(e) permits an accelerated appeal on forwarded original papers or sworn uncontroverted copies in lieu of the clerk’s record, and permits submission without briefs. Establish the actual court direction rather than assuming it.
• Rule 34.5a(a) uses an election notice within ten days after the appellant files the notice of appeal. Its original appendix and appellant brief use the separate later-of election-or-reporter event under 34.5a(b). Rule 34.5a(h) excludes preparing or filing a clerk’s record when its appendix is filed. Establish that branch separately.
• Rule 35.3(c) allows court extension on the clerk’s or reporter’s request, with each accelerated extension limited to ten days. It must allow late filing for delay not the appellant’s fault and may do so for appellant fault. The actual request, fault and order remain separate from this ordinary-period calculation.
• Confirm the clerk and reporter have the required notice, requests and fee arrangements or no-fee entitlement. The responsible clerk and reporter prepare, certify and file their respective records under Rule 35.3(a)–(b). Obtain the actual appellate docket filing confirmations. File with the proper appellate clerk. Under Rule 9.2(c)(4), ordinary electronic filing occurs on transmission to the filing party’s service provider before midnight in the court’s time zone, subject to a specified time of day, weekend or holiday transmission and a required leave order. Attorneys in civil cases must electronically file subject to Rule 9.2(c)’s stated exceptions. Preserve confirmation and seek appropriate court relief for technical failure under 9.2(c)(5). Rule 9.5 separately requires timely service on all parties, ordinarily their lead counsel, and proof of service; appellate records outside original proceedings have their stated service exception. A qualifying mailed filing under 9.2(b) requires timely deposit or delivery and receipt within ten days after the filing deadline. Those ten days do not permit late deposit. Rule 9.5(a) states that outside original proceedings a party need not serve a copy of the record. Do not mistake record preparation, payment or a request for actual filing.