Texas Labor Code - LAB § 201.067. Rehabilitative Service; Work Relief; Exception for Services Performed by Certain Trained Individuals

(1) by an individual whose earning capacity is impaired by age, physical impairment, developmental disability, mental illness, or intellectual disability or injury while the individual is in training at a sheltered workshop or other facility operated by a charitable organization under a rehabilitation program that includes:

(2) by an individual who receives work relief or work training as a part of an unemployment work-relief or work-training program assisted or financed in whole or in part by a federal agency, an agency of a state, a political subdivision of a state, or an Indian tribe.

(1) temporarily while awaiting placement in a position of employment in the competitive labor market; or

(2) permanently because the individual is unable to compete in the competitive labor market.