Texas PIA Deadline Calculator

Estimate key Texas Public Information Act deadlines, including the 10-business-day ruling deadline and the 15-business-day submission deadline.

Built for Texas cities, districts, city secretaries, public information officers, and small governmental bodies.
Accounts for weekends, selected holidays, designated nonbusiness days, clarification, mail uncertainty, catastrophe periods, and vendor-held contracting information.
Designed as a planning aid — not a substitute for legal advice on withholding, redaction, exceptions, or Attorney General ruling strategy.

Calculate deadlines

Date the written PIA request was received

Do not count the day received. The calculator starts with the next business day.

Request received by U.S. mail and actual receipt date is uncertainUse the third business day after postmark as the presumed receipt date.

Clarification or narrowing was requestedFor narrowed/clarified requests, deadlines may run from the date the requestor responds.

Catastrophe suspension period appliesRequests before or during a properly noticed suspension period may be tolled or deemed received after the period ends.

Request may include contracting information held by a vendorAdds vendor-request and special AG deadline planning dates.

A written cost estimate was sentCalculates the requestor’s 10-business-day response deadline.

Observed holidays and nonbusiness days

Holiday year

Review these dates. Some holidays are optional or observed differently by different governmental bodies.

Additional nonbusiness / closure dates

Use this for locally designated nonbusiness days, closures, or holidays not listed above.

This tool uses calendar math based on the inputs you provide. Confirm final deadlines with counsel before withholding, redacting, delaying, or requesting an Attorney General ruling.

Important limitations

This calculator is a general planning tool for Texas Public Information Act response deadlines. It does not determine whether information is public, confidential, excepted from disclosure, subject to redaction, subject to a previous determination, or appropriate for an Attorney General ruling request.

PIA deadlines can change based on clarification, narrowing, weekends, holidays, designated nonbusiness days, catastrophe notices, cost estimates, third-party interests, and vendor-held contracting information.
Some requests need immediate legal review, especially requests involving personnel records, police records, minor information, social security numbers, motor vehicle records, attorney-client communications, pending litigation, security information, medical/privacy information, proprietary vendor information, or confidential economic development matters.
Nothing on this page creates an attorney-client relationship. For legal advice, contact Santos Law or your governmental body’s attorney.