What hearing or submission floor applies to a Texas summary judgment motion?

Prove actual motion filing and the amended edition’s applicability.

Obtain the court’s hearing or submission setting and clerk notice.

Check the ordinary sixty-day or conditional ninety-day timetable and proposed-order requirement.

1. Prove actual motion filing and the amended edition’s applicability.
2. The operative language prohibits a setting within thirty-five days after filing. Do not replace that exclusion wording with a promise that a plus-thirty-five result is the first permissible hearing. Rule 4, the actual court calendar and governing order require assessment. This guide calculates neither the floor boundary nor a court date.
3. Read the actual order and confirm every stated condition.
4. Complete the act required by the rule, not merely a date calculation.

A hearing floor is not a last-day filing period. Do not silently apply a generic next-open-day deadline rollover to create an actual court setting. Check the exact rule, actual court calendar and setting. This guide applies no automatic boundary adjustment.

The encoded thirty-five-day preset does not resolve the exclusion boundary, calendar, actual court setting or outer timetable. This guide preserves the rule’s exact constraint without computing a first permissible date.

The floor does not establish the full setting window

Rule 166a(g)(1)(A) supplies the ordinary sixty-day timetable. The ninety-day alternative under (B) requires its stated docket, good-cause or movant-agreement condition. Withdrawal and permitted resetting must be assessed.

Notice comes from the actual setting

Under Rule 166a(c), the clerk immediately calls the filed motion to the court’s attention and sends parties notice of the court’s actual submission or hearing date. Filing does not itself notify parties of a calculated future hearing.

Proposed orders precede the actual hearing or submission

Rule 166a(g)(3) requires each party’s proposed order before the hearing or submission. Rule (g)(4) bars oral testimony, and (g)(5) requires the actual heard or submitted date in the docket.

Motion filing selects the amended edition

The final order makes the rewritten Rule 166a effective March 1, 2026 and applies it only to summary judgment motions filed on or after that date. The date of a later response, reply, hearing or ruling does not move an earlier motion into the rewritten rule. Identify the actual motion filing and applicable edition before using this page. This page does not calculate the former rule’s timetable.

• This guide does not establish the actual pleadings, service, calendar, legal entitlement or terms of a signed order.
• The current consolidation date does not decide historical applicability of an individual amendment.

• Prove actual motion filing and the amended edition’s applicability.
• Obtain the court’s hearing or submission setting and clerk notice.
• Check the ordinary sixty-day or conditional ninety-day timetable and proposed-order requirement.
• Rule 166a(g)(1)(A) supplies the ordinary sixty-day timetable. The ninety-day alternative under (B) requires its stated docket, good-cause or movant-agreement condition. Withdrawal and permitted resetting must be assessed.
• Under Rule 166a(c), the clerk immediately calls the filed motion to the court’s attention and sends parties notice of the court’s actual submission or hearing date. Filing does not itself notify parties of a calculated future hearing.
• Rule 166a(g)(3) requires each party’s proposed order before the hearing or submission. Rule (g)(4) bars oral testimony, and (g)(5) requires the actual heard or submitted date in the docket.
• The court sets the actual hearing or submission and the clerk sends notice under Rule 166a(c). Each party must submit a proposed order before the actual hearing or submission under (g)(3). Preserve the setting, notice, proposed orders and actual docket date. A date calculation does not set the hearing.