Texas professional LLC (PLLC)

The Texas professional LLC

Which occupations Texas says must use it

Texas runs both tests at once. The statute defines the class (BOC § 301.003 defines professional service and professional individual, and § 301.006 requires a license), and the Secretary of State publishes an occupation-by-occupation table, the Guide for Determining Permissible Entity Types for Licensed Professions, which marks each licensed profession against the entity types open to it (FP, LLC, PC, PLLC, PA). The guide is specific enough to separate professions that look alike: an architect, engineer, accountant or attorney may use a PC or a PLLC, a doctor of medicine or of osteopathy may use a PLLC or a professional association but not a PC, and an interior designer, court reporter or cosmetologist uses an ordinary corporation or LLC. The office's answer to "Am I required to form a professional entity?" is that if you organize as a corporation or LLC and will perform professional services, you may be required to form as a professional entity, while partnerships are not subject to the same restrictions.

Texas also offers a corporation under a professional statute

A practice choosing between the two forms is choosing between these rules and the ones above.

Does the agent requirement differ from an ordinary Texas LLC’s?

No. Texas sets no separate agent requirement for a professional entity — it is the same requirement an ordinary Texas LLC files under.

Form 206 carries the same Article 2 as the ordinary LLC form: the registered agent is either an organization registered to do business in Texas or an individual resident of the state, never the entity itself, the person must have consented in written or electronic form (BOC § 5.207, with the false-statement liabilities of §§ 4.007 and 4.008), and the registered office must be a street address where the agent can be personally served during normal business hours, not solely a mailbox or answering service (BOC § 5.201).

What else Texas requires

Texas has three professional forms, not two, and the third is the one that trips people up. Title 7 gives the state a professional association (BOC ch. 302, Form 204) alongside the professional corporation (ch. 303, Form 203) and the professional limited liability company (ch. 304, Form 206). The Secretary of State restricts professional associations to nine groups: doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathy, podiatrists, mental health professionals (such as psychologists, family therapists and licensed professional counselors), optometrists, therapeutic optometrists, chiropractors, dentists and veterinarians, citing BOC § 301.003; a licensed physician assistant may jointly own one with a licensed physician subject to BOC § 301.012. Ownership and office rules differ by form: in a PLLC, owners and governing persons may be a professional individual or a professional organization while only a professional individual may be an officer; in a PC, owners may be a professional individual or organization but governing persons and officers must both be professional individuals; in a PA, owners, governing persons and officers must all be professional individuals who are also members. Article 4 of Form 206 and Article 5 of Form 203 both require the filer to state the type of professional service the entity will provide. Read from the office's own pages and forms in September 2026.