Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 122.0076 · Chapter 122. PURCHASING FROM PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
WAGE REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A community rehabilitation program may not participate in the program administered under this chapter unless each worker with a disability employed by the program is paid at least the federal minimum wage under Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206), for any work relating to any products or services purchased from the community rehabilitation program through the program administered under this chapter.
(b) The workforce commission may exempt the community rehabilitation program from the requirements of this section with respect to a worker with a disability if the workforce commission determines, based on the worker's circumstances, that requiring the program to pay the worker at the federal minimum wage would result in the program not being able to retain the worker with a disability, the worker would not have success obtaining work with a different employer, and the worker, based on the worker's circumstances, would not be able to obtain employment at a higher wage than the program would be able to pay the worker notwithstanding the requirements of this section.
(c) To the extent of a conflict between this section and Chapter 62, Labor Code, this section controls.
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History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 35 (S.B. 753), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.122.htm
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