Tex. Lab. Code § 201.066 · Subchapter E. EXCEPTIONS TO EMPLOYMENT
RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subtitle, "employment" does not include:
(1) service in the employ of:
(A) a church;
(B) a convention or association of churches; or
(C) an organization that is operated primarily for religious purposes and that is operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or a convention or association of churches;
(2) service performed by an ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of the individual's ministry; or
(3) service performed by a member of a religious order as required by the order.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.201.htm
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- 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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