§ 147.041.Limitations Period

A two-year period with an unusual accrual trigger.

Subsection (a): an action must be brought not later than two years after the date the computer date failure first caused the harm that is the subject matter of the action.

"First caused the harm" is the operative phrase, and it does two things.

It runs from harm rather than from the failure, so a system that miscalculated in January but caused no loss until June accrues in June.

And "first" forecloses the argument that each recurrence starts a new period. A failure producing errors month after month accrues once, at the first harm — which is the same approach the trade secrets provision takes to continuing misappropriation, and it runs against claimants for the same reason.

Note that there is no discovery rule. The section keys accrual to harm occurring, not to the claimant learning of it — and date failures were frequently silent, producing wrong numbers that looked right.

Subsection (b) is a double disclaimer. The section does not extend the period available under any other law, and does not revive a claim already barred.

So the two years is a ceiling rather than a grant. A claim with a shorter period elsewhere keeps the shorter one, and a claim already dead stays dead.

The disability provision applies to this period, and the repose section supplies the outer limit.