Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Missouri has no domestication or conversion route that lets a Missouri LLC become another state’s LLC while remaining the same entity. There is no such section anywhere in RSMo Chapter 347. What you do instead is form the destination-state LLC and merge the Missouri one into it: Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127–347.135, filing fee $25. You do not have to dissolve.
Why the answer is no
RSMo Chapter 347’s full table of contents (roughly 95 sections, §347.010 through §347.189, plus the cross-entity merger sections §347.700–347.740) was read section by section and searched for ‘domesticat’, ‘convert’ (jurisdictional sense), ‘transfer of domicile’, ‘continuance’, ‘redomestica’, and ‘another jurisdiction’ used as a jurisdiction-change trigger. Nothing in the chapter covers a Missouri LLC changing its state of organization without dissolving. The one section that uses the word ‘conversion,’ § 347.125, only converts a Missouri general or limited partnership into a Missouri LLC: its own text limits it to entities ‘formed under the laws of this state,’ so it does not reach a foreign entity. Worth noting as corroboration: pending bill HB 1452 (2025 session) would have created exactly this domestication mechanism (new §§347.202–347.214, $100 SOS filing fee per its own fiscal note), the strongest evidence the legislature knows the gap exists, and it died in the House Emerging Issues Committee in May 2025, unrevived in the 2026 session.
The route that does work
The substitute is merger, not domestication: form a new LLC in the destination state and merge the Missouri LLC into it. The authority is Mo. Rev. Stat. § 347.127(1) (‘A domestic limited liability company may merge or consolidate with or into one or more limited liability companies formed under the laws of this state or any other jurisdiction’), implemented through the Agreement of Merger (§347.128) and Notice of Merger or Consolidation filed with the Missouri Secretary of State (§347.129), filing fee $25. The caveat that matters: unlike domestication, merger produces a surviving entity that receives the old entity’s assets and liabilities by operation of merger law rather than a literal continuation of the same entity: EIN, bank-account, and contract continuity should be checked case-by-case. A separate, non-domicile-changing option also exists: simple foreign qualification via Form LLC-4 (§347.153, $105) while remaining organized in Missouri.
What is commonly published about Missouri
That Missouri allows LLC domestication, sometimes cited with a specific $100 filing fee: this traces to HB 1452 (2025), which proposed the mechanism and died in committee; it was never enacted, and RSMo Chapter 347 as currently in force contains no such provision.
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.
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 is on the domestication states list.
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.
- Missouri: https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=347. Statutory text, re-read 2026-09-03 from revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=347: the same official Missouri Revisor of Statutes source as the dataset.