Amend CSSB 2411 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 4.001(a), Business Organizations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A filing instrument must be:

(1)  signed by a person authorized by this code to act on behalf of the entity in regard to the filing instrument; and

(2)  delivered to the secretary of state in person or by mail, courier, [facsimile or] electronic transmission, or any other method approved by the secretary of state [comparable form of delivery].

SECTION ____.  Section 4.001(a), Business Organizations Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a filing instrument delivered to the secretary of state on or after the effective date of this Act. A filing instrument delivered to the secretary of state before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the filing instrument was delivered to the secretary of state, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.