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:(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. 9/1/1993.