Tex. Labor Code Section 62.152
Employment by Religious, Educational, Charitable, or Nonprofit Organization

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

Source: Section 62.152 — Employment by Religious, Educational, Charitable, or Nonprofit Organization, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.­62.­htm#62.­152 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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