Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Texas permits it, in both directions, under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10): the statute calls the transaction ‘conversion,’ not ‘domestication,’ which is exactly the kind of caption mismatch that makes states like this one drop off keyword-built lists. The catch is a reciprocity condition: Texas only treats the move as a conversion if the other state’s own law would itself characterize it as a domestication, continuance, or transfer: Texas’s SOS says this outright in its own form instructions. The entity-law filing fee is $300. This page covers the entity-law half only.
The statute, and why Texas gets miscounted
The mechanism sits in a definitions clause, not a freestanding domestication article: BOC § 1.002(10) defines ‘Conversion’ to include ‘the continuance of a domestic entity of one type as a foreign entity of the same type that may be treated as a domestication, continuance, or transfer transaction under the laws of the jurisdiction of formation of the foreign entity’: an explicit reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law. Texas’s own Form 647 instructions state the rule in plain language: ‘the law of both jurisdictions must permit the transaction.’ Section 10.154(a)(1) is why a Texas LLC still owes a Texas-side filing even though it’s leaving: ‘filing entity’ status triggers the certificate-of-conversion requirement regardless of which direction the entity is headed, and § 10.154(d) confirms the conversion simply does not take effect if the destination jurisdiction’s law is inconsistent with it.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Texas LLC does not use a numbered Secretary of State form: the SOS’s own BOC forms index lists only Texas-to-Texas entity-type conversions and Form 647 for the inbound (foreign-to-Texas) direction, nothing for Texas-to-foreign. Instead, BOC § 10.154(b) lets the filer draft its own certificate of conversion meeting the statute’s required content list, filed with the Texas Secretary of State because a Texas LLC is a ‘filing entity’ and § 10.154(a)(1) requires the filing whenever any domestic party to the conversion is one. The $300 figure is the Certificate of Conversion fee stated in Form 647’s official instructions, which by the statute’s structure applies to the conversion filing type generally rather than being posted as an inbound-only number; Texas’s general fee-schedule pages returned HTTP 403 to every fetch attempt, so a dedicated outbound-only fee line was not independently located. The destination state’s own domestication or formation fee is separate and not counted 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 Texas 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 Texas’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 Texas 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 Texas, and why it is wrong
Multiple current ‘states that allow LLC domestication’ lists count Texas among the permitting states without qualification, and skip that the mechanism lives inside a definitions-section clause rather than a dedicated domestication article, or that it carries a reciprocity condition.
The headline claim is directionally correct (Texas does permit both directions), but if the other state’s own statute doesn’t independently treat the move as a domestication, continuance, or transfer, the Texas side doesn’t rescue the transaction on its own.
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.
- Texas: https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._bus._org._code_section_10.154. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset.