Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.010 · Subchapter A. REGISTRATION
NAME CHANGE OF FOREIGN FILING ENTITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If a foreign filing entity authorized to transact business in this state changes its name to a name that would cause the entity to be denied an application for registration under this subchapter, the entity's registration must be suspended. An entity the registration of which has been suspended under this section may transact business in this state only after the entity:
(1) changes its name to a name that is available to it under the laws of this state; or
(2) otherwise complies with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 64 (H.B. 1319), Sec. 29, eff. January 1, 2006.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 45, eff. September 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.9.htm
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- sha256 71bd892af55a610881d37f5f571ca292ccb46867300c0f705fea7a512aeb8da9
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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