How much notice must each party receive of a Texas Rule 91a hearing?

Obtain the actual oral hearing or submission setting.

Identify every party entitled to notice and when actual notice was given.

Keep the motion, response and short-period amendment intervals separate from this notice.

1. Obtain the actual oral hearing or submission setting.
2. Preserve at least fourteen days’ notice to each party before the actual hearing or submission. Fourteen exceeds Rule 4’s short-period exception. A filed motion or notice document alone does not prove each party’s timely notice.
3. Read the actual order and confirm every stated condition.
4. Complete the act required by the rule, not merely a date calculation.

Rule 4 excludes the controlling event. For periods longer than five days, intermediate weekends and legal holidays count. Do not automatically move a backward latest filing or notice date forward and shorten the required interval. Establish the actual hearing, legally relevant holidays, court calendar and any leave or order. This guide makes no automatic backward closed-day adjustment.

The source guide cannot establish actual notice to every party or decide a backward closed-day service date from one input.

Pleading decision and fee evidence differ

Rule 91a.6 permits submission without an oral hearing and decides dismissal from the challenged pleading and permitted Rule 59 exhibits, without other evidence except as required for Rule 91a.7. For actions commenced on or after September 1, 2019, .7 permits an evidence-based prevailing-party costs and reasonable necessary trial-court fee award, subject to its governmental-action exception. Earlier actions require the applicable prior fee rule.

Oral argument is optional

Rule 91a.6 permits but does not require an oral hearing. The 2013 comment includes submission in hearing, preserving the relevant timing and notice for a submission setting.

Notice is not motion or response filing

Rule 91a.3(b) separately requires motion filing at least twenty-one days before hearing, while .4 governs any response seven days before hearing. Fourteen-day notice does not satisfy either other required act.

• 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.

• Obtain the actual oral hearing or submission setting.
• Identify every party entitled to notice and when actual notice was given.
• Keep the motion, response and short-period amendment intervals separate from this notice.
• Rule 91a.6 permits submission without an oral hearing and decides dismissal from the challenged pleading and permitted Rule 59 exhibits, without other evidence except as required for Rule 91a.7. For actions commenced on or after September 1, 2019, .7 permits an evidence-based prevailing-party costs and reasonable necessary trial-court fee award, subject to its governmental-action exception. Earlier actions require the applicable prior fee rule.
• Rule 91a.6 permits but does not require an oral hearing. The 2013 comment includes submission in hearing, preserving the relevant timing and notice for a submission setting.
• Rule 91a.3(b) separately requires motion filing at least twenty-one days before hearing, while .4 governs any response seven days before hearing. Fourteen-day notice does not satisfy either other required act.
• Give each party the actual hearing or submission notice and preserve service evidence under the applicable Rule 21a method. Separately preserve any filed notice and its court receipt. The ordinary Rule 21(f)(5) filing boundary does not establish service or receipt of notice.