When must the court issue the Texas summary judgment written ruling?

Confirm the underlying motion was filed on or after March 1, 2026.

Identify the actual hearing or submission date recorded in the docket, rather than a superseded setting.

Obtain the actual signed ruling, clerk filing and evidence it was provided to the parties.

1. Confirm the underlying motion was filed on or after March 1, 2026.
2. The ruling period is measured from actual hearing or submission, not motion filing, service or a later proposed order. Assess the three required court acts together. The court’s separate scheduling timetables do not replace this trigger.
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 actual event and counts intermediate calendar days for these periods longer than five days. A final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday moves to the next eligible day. Establish the legally relevant holidays and actual court calendar. A nominal period does not complete a party filing or a court act.

The guide does not infer an actual court decision, judgment date or party deadline from the court’s ninety-day duty.

Actual heard or submitted date

Rule 166a(g)(5) requires the court to record the actual hearing or submission date in the docket. A reset proposed date does not prove the event occurred.

Three required ruling acts

Rule 166a(i) requires signing a written ruling, filing it with the clerk and providing it to the parties within the stated period. Establish each act rather than treating a drafted proposed order as complete.

Passage of time does not decide the merits

Rule 166a(h) supplies the standards for granting summary judgment. Rule (i) supplies a court ruling duty and does not state that the motion is automatically granted when the period passes.

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.

• Confirm the underlying motion was filed on or after March 1, 2026.
• Identify the actual hearing or submission date recorded in the docket, rather than a superseded setting.
• Obtain the actual signed ruling, clerk filing and evidence it was provided to the parties.
• Rule 166a(g)(5) requires the court to record the actual hearing or submission date in the docket. A reset proposed date does not prove the event occurred.
• Rule 166a(i) requires signing a written ruling, filing it with the clerk and providing it to the parties within the stated period. Establish each act rather than treating a drafted proposed order as complete.
• Rule 166a(h) supplies the standards for granting summary judgment. Rule (i) supplies a court ruling duty and does not state that the motion is automatically granted when the period passes.
• The court must sign a written ruling, file it with the clerk and provide it to the parties under Rule 166a(i). Preserve all three acts and the actual hearing or submission docket entry. A proposed order, unsigned announcement or party filing receipt does not establish the required signed written ruling.