Tex. Health and Safety Code § 143.008: PROHIBITION ON ISSUANCE OF PERMIT OR CERTIFICATE.

The board may not issue an employer's permit or a homeworker's certificate to authorize industrial homework or the delivery of materials for industrial homework if the board determines that the industrial homework:

(1) is injurious to the health or welfare of industrial homeworkers in that industry or to the public; or

(2) makes it unduly difficult to maintain or enforce health standards established by law or rule for factory workers in that industry.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.