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2025 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 4 - Employment Services and Unemployment
Subtitle A - Texas Unemployment Compensation Act
Chapter 201 - Unemployment Compensation Act--General Provisions
Subchapter E. Exceptions to Employment
Section 201.066. Religious Service
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TX Lab Code § 201.066 (2025)
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Sec. 201.066. RELIGIOUS SERVICE. In this subtitle, "employment" does not include:
(1) service in the employ of:
(A) a church;
(B) a convention or association of churches; or
(C) an organization that is operated primarily for religious purposes and that is operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or a convention or association of churches;
(2) service performed by an ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of the individual's ministry; or
(3) service performed by a member of a religious order as required by the order.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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