Updated August 17, 2026. Quick answer: yes — an LLC formed in another state can become a Texas LLC and stay the same legal entity, keeping its EIN, formation date and contracts. Texas’s statute calls the mechanism conversion, at Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10); § 10.101. The filing fee is $300. The catch is at the other end of the move, not this one.
What Texas’s statute actually says
The operative provision is Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10); § 10.101, and the state’s own term for the transaction is conversion. What makes a provision count for this purpose is narrow and worth stating: the act’s defined “converting entity” or “other entity” has to expressly reach an entity formed under another jurisdiction’s law. An LLC turning into a corporation inside one state is a different transaction that nearly every state allows, and conflating the two is how the published counts drift.
What the filing is and what it costs
Inbound: Certificate of Conversion of a Foreign Entity Converting to a Texas Filing Entity (Form 647) plus a Certificate of Formation for the new Texas LLC, both filed with the Texas Secretary of State. Outbound: a self-drafted certificate of conversion meeting BOC §10.154(b)’s required content (no numbered SOS form exists for this direction), filed with the Texas Secretary of State; the destination state separately charges its own domestication/formation fee, which this row does not attempt to price.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. Registered agent, foreign qualification in any state where you still do business, and any tax clearance the state you are leaving demands are all separate.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong — it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake — see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication — but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
What the published lists get right about Texas, and what they leave out
Multiple current ‘states that allow LLC domestication’ lists (via aggregated web search, not cited as sources) count Texas among the permitting states without qualification, and none of the ones surfaced mention that the mechanism lives inside a definitions-section clause (BOC §1.002(10)) rather than a freestanding domestication article, or that it carries a reciprocity condition.
That is correct as far as it goes, and it is worth saying plainly rather than scoring a point off it. What those lists omit is the reciprocity condition: both jurisdictions’ law has to reach the transaction. If the state you are leaving has no provision that reaches entities from other jurisdictions, the Texas side does not independently rescue the move.
What this page does not tell you
This is entity law. It does not tell you whether the IRS will treat your Texas LLC as a continuation for federal tax purposes, what happens to your EIN, or what the state you are leaving will want in tax clearance before it lets the entity go. Those are real questions with different sources behind them, and we would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with something we have not read. This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
The full 51-jurisdiction table, with the statute behind every cell, is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster — those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Delaware — https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc02/index.html. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Kentucky — https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=38578. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Massachusetts — https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter156C. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Missouri — https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=347. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- New Mexico — https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/publicfiles/ee3072ab0d43456cb15a51f7d82c77a2/1c940b98-cdb8-45ad-839f-7645c176a0c7/ch53art19.pdf. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- New York — https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/1001. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- South Carolina — https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Texas — https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._bus._org._code_section_1.002. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Washington — https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=25.15.436. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- West Virginia — https://code.wvlegislature.gov/email/31B/. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
Where else you can move it: 25 more destination guides, added September 3, 2026, each read from that state’s own statute. Check the destination end before you file at this one.
Moving the other way? The origin-side rules are different from the destination-side rules, and both have to permit the move: see moving an LLC out of Texas.