Tex. Labor Code § 62.152
This is the official text of Tex. Labor Code § 62.152, part of Texas’s Labor Code — governs wages, workplace safety, and workers' compensation.
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§ 62.152. EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
Official statutory text
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.
(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.
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