STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
Applied in 76 court decisions — leading case Specialty Retailers, Inc. v. DeMoranville (1996)
Most recently applied in John Hinkley v. Envoy Air, Incorporated (August 2020)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a complaint under this subchapter must be filed not later than the 180th day after the date the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred.
(a-1) A complaint under this subchapter alleging sexual harassment must be filed not later than the 300th day after the date the alleged sexual harassment occurred.
(b) The commission shall dismiss an untimely complaint.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.