Texas § LA.62.152 - EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

§ LA.62.152. EMPLOYMENT BY RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, OR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

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.