Electronic Filing

Clerks serving Texas appellate courts, district courts, statutory county courts, and constitutional county courts must implement criminal case electronic filing in compliance with the Court of Criminal Appeals’ Order Mandating Statewide Electronic Filing in Criminal Cases (Misc. Docket No. 16-003) entered June 30, 2016, and any subsequent orders entered by the Court of Criminal Appeals governing electronic filing. A clerk may implement criminal case electronic filing prior to the mandatory date set out in the Court of Criminal Appeals’ Order Mandating Statewide Electronic Filing in Criminal Cases. Once a court becomes subject to mandatory electronic filing, attorneys must electronically file all documents, pleadings, and materials filed in that court through the electronic filing portal provided or approved by the Office of Court Administration, except where these rules or other Texas law allow or mandate non-electronic (paper) filing. Attorneys must not file documents through any alternative electronic document filing transmission system, except in the event of an emergency or where these rules provide for the use of the alternative filing transmission system. Unrepresented parties may electronically file documents but it is not required.