Tex. Lab. Code § 51.013 · Subchapter B. RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYMENT
HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT; HARDSHIP EXEMPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person permits a child who is 14 or 15 years of age and who is employed by the person to work more than:
(1) eight hours in one day; or
(2) 48 hours in one week.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person permits a child who is 14 or 15 years of age, is employed by the person, and is enrolled in a term of a public or private school to work:
(1) between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. on a day that is followed by a school day; or
(2) between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. on a day that is not followed by a school day.
(c) A person commits an offense if the person permits a child who is 14 or 15 years of age, is employed by the person, and is not enrolled in summer school to work between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. on any day during the time that school is recessed for the summer.
(d) The commission may adopt rules for determining whether hardships exist. If, on the application of a child, the commission determines that a hardship exists for that child, this section does not apply to that child.
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.51.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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