Tex. Lab. Code § 62.152 · Subchapter D. EXEMPTIONS
EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who is:
(1) a member of a religious order while the person is performing a service for or at the direction of the order;
(2) a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest, rabbi, sexton, or Christian Science reader while the person is performing services in that capacity for a church, synagogue, or religious organization;
(3) engaged in the activities of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization in which:
(A) the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist; or
(B) the services are rendered to the organization gratuitously;
(4) employed by the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or a local organization affiliated with those organizations;
(5) employed by a camp of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization; or
(6) employed with the person's spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of a child:
(A) who is an orphan;
(B) one of whose natural parents is deceased; or
(C) who is enrolled in and resides in residential facilities of the institution, if the employee and the employee's spouse:
(i) reside in residential facilities of the institution; and
(ii) receive, without cost, board and lodging from the institution.
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.62.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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