Tex. Occ. Code § 2402.134 · Subchapter C-1. OPERATION OF DELIVERY NETWORK COMPANIES
DELIVERY PERSONS AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A delivery person is considered an independent contractor for all purposes, and not an employee of a delivery network company in any manner, if:
(1) the company does not:
(A) prescribe the specific hours during which the delivery person is required to be logged in to the company's digital network;
(B) impose restrictions on the delivery person's ability to use other delivery network companies' digital networks;
(C) prescribe the territory within which the delivery person may provide deliveries; or
(D) restrict the delivery person from engaging in another occupation or business; and
(2) the company and the delivery person agree in writing that the delivery person is an independent contractor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 227 (H.B. 4215), Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2402.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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