82R16526 CAE-F By: Lewis H.B. No. 2047 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2047: By: Bohac C.S.H.B. No. 2047 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 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.