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| 1 | 1 | By: Lewis (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 2047 | |
| 2 | 2 | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; | |
| 3 | 3 | May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | |
| 4 | 4 | Jurisprudence; May 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following | |
| 5 | 5 | vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 21, 2011, sent to printer.) | |
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| 8 | 8 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 9 | 9 | AN ACT | |
| 10 | 10 | relating to service of process at the registered office of certain | |
| 11 | 11 | registered agents. | |
| 12 | 12 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 13 | 13 | SECTION 1. Section 5.201, Business Organizations Code, is | |
| 14 | 14 | amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | |
| 15 | 15 | (d) A registered agent that is an organization must have an | |
| 16 | 16 | employee available at the registered office during normal business | |
| 17 | 17 | hours to receive service of process, notice, or demand. Any | |
| 18 | 18 | employee of the organization may receive service at the registered | |
| 19 | 19 | office. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 2. Section 5.201(d), Business Organizations Code, | |
| 21 | 21 | as added by this Act, applies to all process served on or after the | |
| 22 | 22 | effective date of this Act, without regard to whether the process | |
| 23 | 23 | was issued before, on, or after that date. | |
| 24 | 24 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | |
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