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Tex. Lab. Code § 62.152

EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

Known as the Texas Minimum Wage Act

The act spans §§ 62–62 (28 sections).

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff

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.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.