Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Florida permits it, in both directions, under Fla. Stat. § 605.1041(1)(b); but the article actually captioned ‘domestication’ (§ 605.1051) is the wrong one to cite here: it’s reserved for entities formed under another country’s law, not another US state. The statute that actually does the interstate work is titled ‘conversion.’ The entity-law filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only.
The statute, and why Florida gets miscounted
Section 605.1041(1) reads: ‘a domestic limited liability company may become: … (b) A foreign entity that is a limited liability company or a different type of entity, if the conversion is authorized by the law of the foreign entity’s jurisdiction of formation’: a reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law. The naming trap is not incidental: § 605.1051’s own text (‘a non-United States entity may become a domestic limited liability company if the domestication is authorized under the organic law of the non-United States entity’s jurisdiction of formation’) makes clear that Florida’s ‘domestication’ article never contemplated ordinary state-to-state moves. Anyone citing § 605.1051, or the word ‘domestication,’ as Florida’s interstate-LLC-move statute has the wrong section; the correct citations are § 605.1041(1)(b) outbound and § 605.1041(3) inbound.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Florida LLC files Articles of Conversion with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, under § 605.1045, which for a converting Florida entity must include a statement that the conversion was approved consistent with Florida law and that the resulting foreign entity’s jurisdiction authorizes receiving it. The fee schedule at § 605.0213(10) calls the same filing a ‘certificate of conversion’ and sets it at a flat $25 that does not distinguish inbound from outbound.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Florida 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 Florida’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 Florida 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.
What is commonly published about Florida, and why it is wrong
That Florida’s LLC ‘domestication’ statute (§ 605.1051) is the route an out-of-state LLC uses to move its jurisdiction of formation to or from Florida.
Section 605.1051 by its own terms reaches only ‘non-United States entities.’ The correct citation for a state-to-state move is the conversion article, § 605.1041(1)(b) outbound and § 605.1041(3) inbound.
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.
- Florida: https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.1041. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset.