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An out-of-state LLC in Texas

If your out-of-state LLC does business in Texas, it registers with the Texas Secretary of State for a fee of $750.

Do you need to register?

That depends on what the LLC does in Texas, and Texas’s statute is the authority. The law behind it, from the state’s own sources: Business Organizations Code, Chapter 9. If the answer is not clear, a Texas attorney can say.

If you register: what to bring

  • The application: Form 304, Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company
  • Filed with: Texas Secretary of State
  • Fee: $750
  • Paper from your formation state: None for an LLC
  • A local agent: A registered agent in Texas

Best 3 Foreign Registration Services in Texas (2026)

Handing the Texas registration to a service? In order of our preference.

  1. 1. Mainstay Filing $199 + the $750 state fee = $949; registered agent free for the first year, then $149 a year. Its Texas checkout showed $1,016.13 in total, including the state’s required $50 expedite and $17.13 in state processing charges (checked October 29, 2026).
  2. 2. TX Registered Agent.org $199 + the $750 state fee = $949; registered agent included for the first year, then $99 a year.
  3. 3. Texas Registered Agent.ai $199 + the $750 state fee = $949; registered agent included for the first year, then $99 a year.

Service prices from each provider’s Texas page, read October 29, 2026. The state fee is the official figure below and is paid to the Texas Secretary of State.

Where Texas sits

49th cheapest of 50 at $750, in the band $500 and up. It does not ask an LLC for paper from the formation state, unlike 36 others.

Texas questions

Does an out-of-state LLC have to register in Texas?

Texas registers foreign LLCs through the Texas Secretary of State. Whether your activity requires it is set by Texas’s statute, linked below; we do not offer one test for every state. If it does, the fee is $750.

What does an out-of-state LLC file in Texas?

Form 304, Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company.

What does it keep up afterward?

Public Information Report (Texas Comptroller), no fee (due: may 15), and a registered agent in the state.

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