Tex. Lab. Code § 62.160

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 62.160 - Agricultural Exemptions
(a) An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of a person in dairy farming.
(b) Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock.
(c) In this section, "production of livestock" includes:
(1) any livestock operation, without regard to size or type of location, in which the land produces forage or feedstuffs, including naturally or artificially revegetated forage or feedstuffs;
(2) breeding, feeding, watering, containing, maintaining, and caring for livestock;
(3) production of livestock in feedlots; and
(4) all other activities necessary or useful to the raising of livestock.

Tex. Lab. Code § 62.160

Amended By Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 506, Sec. 5.34, eff. 9/1/2009.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1993.