Tex. Human Resources Code Section 246.003
Pay and Distribution of Pay

The department shall apportion wages earned by a child working under the industries program in amounts determined at the discretion of the department, in the following priority:

(1)

a person to whom the child has been ordered by a court or to whom the child has agreed to pay restitution;

(2)

a person to whom the child has been ordered by a court to pay child support;

(3)

the compensation to victims of crime fund or the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund; and

(4)

the child’s student account.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Subchapter I, Chapter 61 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 653), Sec. 1.008, eff. September 1, 2011.

Source: Section 246.003 — Pay and Distribution of Pay, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.­246.­htm#246.­003 (accessed May 26, 2025).

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