Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Louisiana lets a Louisiana LLC convert its state of organization directly to another state’s, staying the same legal entity throughout: no dissolve-and-reform. The statute is R.S. 12:1308.3, and the move only works if the destination state’s own law doesn’t prohibit it. A specific filing fee for this transaction could not be confirmed from the Secretary of State’s published schedule.
The statute, and why Louisiana gets miscounted
R.S. 12:1308.3.A reads: ‘Unless prohibited by the laws of the other state, a domestic limited liability company may convert its state of organization from this state to any other state…’: the reciprocity condition sits right in the operative sentence. Subsection F(1) then states that a converting Louisiana LLC ‘shall be deemed to be organized solely under the laws of such other state and no longer under the laws of this state’ and ‘shall continue to exist without interruption,’ with all rights, obligations, and liabilities continuing without impairment: genuine continuous-entity domestication, independently reconfirmed this session by direct fetch of the official legis.la.gov permalink for this section, text unchanged from the dataset.
What the filing costs
No dedicated published fee for this specific filing was found. The Secretary of State’s business-forms list has no ‘Request for Conversion’ or ‘Conversion of State of Organization’ form, and the current fee schedule (effective 10/1/2026) has no line item using the words ‘conversion’ or ‘domestication.’ The closest bucketed category, ‘Amended Articles, Mergers, Dissolutions, Certificate of Correction,’ is priced at $125, but it was never confirmed to apply to this specific filing, so no number is asserted here.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Louisiana is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Louisiana’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Louisiana tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
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.
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.
The full 51-jurisdiction table 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.
- Louisiana: https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=814558. Statutory text, Dataset retrieved 2026-08-12 from the official legis.la.gov direct-document permalink..