The Texas deadline engine
Every Texas clock computed by a pure, unit-tested function — the trigger day excluded, the last day included, weekends rolled, holidays flagged (never silently assumed), and the citation attached. A language model never touches a date. Each parameter below is pinned to the verbatim corpus by a release gate.
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answer monday rule
20 days
mail service addition
3 days
initial disclosures
30 days
discovery response
30 days
discovery response early
50 days
deemed admissions
event-based
msj response
21 days
msj reply
7 days
msj earliest hearing
35 days
msj ruling
90 days
tcpa motion
60 days
medmal expert report
120 days
new trial
30 days
overruled by law
75 days
plenary after overruling
30 days
noa
30 days
tro life
14 days
dwop reinstate
30 days
The maiden catch
Rule 166a's summary-judgment clock was rewritten effective July 1, 2026. The corroboration gate refused the old parameters because the loaded law no longer said them — and the corpus supplied the amended, filing-relative clock. That is verbatim-or-absent working: the law on the page beats anyone's memory of it.