Bill Text: TX HB2047 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to service of process at the registered office of certain registered agents.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2047 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2047-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2047 | ||
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| relating to service of process at the registered office of certain | ||
| registered agents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 5.201, Business Organizations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A registered agent that is an organization must have an | ||
| employee available at the registered office during normal business | ||
| hours to receive service of process, notice, or demand. Any | ||
| employee of the organization may receive service at the registered | ||
| office. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 5.201(d), Business Organizations Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, applies to all process served on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act, without regard to whether the process | ||
| was issued before, on, or after that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2047 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2047 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
