Tex. Health & Safety Code § 143.001 · Chapter 143. INDUSTRIAL HOMEWORK
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Employer" means a person who, directly, indirectly, or through an employee, agent, independent contractor, or any other person, delivers to another person materials for articles that are:
(A) to be manufactured in a home and returned to the employer; and
(B) not for the personal use of the employer or a member of the employer's family.
(2) "Home" means a room, house, apartment, or other premises, whichever is most extensive, that is used in whole or in part as a dwelling.
(3) "Industrial homework" means the manufacture, in a home, of articles for an employer.
(4) "Manufacture" includes preparation, alteration, repair, or finishing, in whole or in part, for profit or compensation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.143.htm
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- sha256 5200c6f0a559dc702f85a6dc985af35524ca96b8c45d1fc62e9e2b098a148b8f
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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