§ 101.066.Computer Date Failure

A dated provision, in both senses.

The chapter does not apply to a claim for property damage caused by a computer date failure as described by Section 147.003.

The cross-referenced chapter concerns the year 2000 problem — the design in which two-digit year fields could not distinguish 2000 from 1900, and systems were expected to fail at the century rollover.

Texas, like many jurisdictions, enacted liability limitations in advance. Governmental units ran a great deal of legacy software controlling utilities, traffic, records, and payments, and the exposure if those systems failed was unquantifiable.

The exclusion is confined to property damage. It does not extend to personal injury or death, so a date failure causing physical harm would not be covered by this section.

The anticipated failures largely did not occur, and the provision has had little occasion to operate. It remains part of the enacted chapter, and a complete table of contents shows it rather than passing over it.

It is a useful reminder of how this subchapter grew: exclusions were added as particular exposures arose, and they remain after the concern has passed.