Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: you cannot. Missouri has no statute letting an out-of-state LLC become a Missouri LLC while remaining the same legal entity, and none letting a Missouri LLC leave, either. This rests on reading the full LLC act rather than any provision that rules it out by name: nothing in the code permits it. A 2025 bill that would have created exactly this mechanism died in committee and was not revived. The route that does work is a merger under Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127-347.135.
Why the answer is no
Missouri’s LLC act, RSMo ch. 347, was read in full: all roughly 95 sections, 347.010 through 347.189, plus the cross-entity merger sections 347.700-347.740, and none of them covers domestication, jurisdictional conversion, transfer of domicile, or continuance. The one “conversion” section, § 347.125, converts a Missouri partnership into a Missouri LLC; by its own terms it’s limited to entities “formed under the laws of this state,” so it doesn’t reach a foreign entity either. A 2025 bill, HB 1452, would have enacted new §§ 347.202-347.214 to create exactly this domestication mechanism, with a $100 Secretary of State filing fee; it never left the House Emerging Issues Committee and was not re-filed or enacted in the 2026 session. Several current web summaries describe the bill’s provisions as if they were already law; they aren’t. The primary source (the statute itself) shows the mechanism does not exist yet.
The route that does work
Merger into a newly formed Missouri LLC (for an out-of-state LLC relocating in) or into a newly formed foreign LLC (for a Missouri LLC relocating out), under Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127-347.135, a Certificate of Merger, $25 filing fee. Short of changing domestic jurisdiction at all, an out-of-state LLC can also simply foreign-qualify via the Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form LLC-4, § 347.153, $105) while remaining organized in its original state. In practice, for the merger route: form the new LLC in the destination state, then merge the existing LLC into it. Rights, contracts, and liabilities pass by operation of merger law. The honest caveat is that a merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so the formation date is the new entity’s, and continuity of EIN, bank accounts, and counterparty consents is not guaranteed the way it would be in a true domestication and should be checked case-by-case. Foreign qualification is often the cheapest and simplest answer if the entity doesn’t actually need to be a Missouri entity.
What is commonly published about Missouri
Some current summaries claim Missouri allows LLC domestication, occasionally citing a specific $100 filing fee.
That claim traces to Missouri HB 1452 (2025), which proposed exactly this mechanism with a $100 Secretary of State fee per its own fiscal note, but the bill died in the House Emerging Issues Committee in May 2025 and was not revived in 2026, so RSMo Chapter 347 as it currently stands contains no such provision.
We would rather be the table that says a widely repeated figure is not in the statute than the table that repeats it.
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, read 2026-08-12 (statute-tier, official government source).
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 Missouri.