{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.152","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Labor Code § 62.152","heading":"EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.","body":"An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who is:\n(1) a member of a religious order while the person is performing a service for or at the direction of the order;\n(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;\n(3) engaged in the activities of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization in which:\n(A) the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist; or\n(B) the services are rendered to the organization gratuitously;\n(4) employed by the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or a local organization affiliated with those organizations;\n(5) employed by a camp of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization; or\n(6) employed with the person's spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of a child:\n(A) who is an orphan;\n(B) one of whose natural parents is deceased; or\n(C) who is enrolled in and resides in residential facilities of the institution, if the employee and the employee's spouse:\n(i) reside in residential facilities of the institution; and\n(ii) receive, without cost, board and lodging from the institution.\nActs 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.","path":["LABOR CODE","TITLE 2. PROTECTION OF LABORERS","SUBTITLE C. WAGES","CHAPTER 62. MINIMUM WAGE","SUBCHAPTER D. EXEMPTIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.62.htm#62.152","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:24Z","sha256":"4ac07eeea141549cedd0453ec97007de07fce6c08e237a7756ba459857f0d90d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.151","next":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.153"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}