(1) When a domestication and conversion of a foreign for-profit corporation to a domestic nonprofit corporation becomes effective:
(a) The title to all real and personal property, both tangible and intangible, of the corporation remains in the corporation without reversion or impairment;
(b) The liabilities of the corporation remain the liabilities of the corporation;
(c) An action or proceeding pending against the corporation continues against the corporation as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred;
(d) The articles of domestication and conversion, or the articles attached to the articles of domestication and conversion, constitute the articles of incorporation of the corporation;
(e) Memberships, securities, obligations, rights to acquire memberships or securities of the corporation, or cash or other property must be issued or paid as provided pursuant to the laws of the foreign jurisdiction;
(f) A devise, bequest, gift, grant, or promise contained in a will or other instrument, in trust or otherwise, made to or for the foreign for-profit corporation before or after the domestication and conversion, inures to the domestic nonprofit corporation, subject to the express terms of the will or other instrument and to applicable law of the foreign jurisdiction; and
(g) The corporation is deemed to be:
(i) A domestic corporation for all purposes; and
(ii) The same corporation without interruption as the foreign for-profit corporation.
(2) The interest holder liability of a shareholder of the foreign for-profit corporation who becomes a member of the domestic nonprofit corporation in the domestication and conversion is as follows:
(a) The domestication and conversion does not discharge any interest holder liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction to the extent the interest holder liability arose before the effective time of the articles of domestication and conversion.
(b) The member does not have interest holder liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction for any debt, obligation, or liability of the corporation that arises after the effective time of the articles of domestication and conversion.
(c) The provisions of the laws of the foreign jurisdiction continue to apply to the collection or discharge of any interest holder liability preserved by (a) of this subsection, as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred.
(d) The member has whatever rights of contribution from other members are provided by the laws of the foreign jurisdiction with respect to any interest holder liability preserved by (a) of this subsection, as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred.
(3) A shareholder of a foreign for-profit corporation who becomes subject to interest holder liability for some or all of the debts, obligations, or liabilities of the corporation as a result of its domestication and conversion in this state has interest holder liability only for those debts, obligations, or liabilities of the corporation that arise after the effective time of the articles of domestication and conversion.
[ 2021 c 176 § 3319.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2021 c 176: See note following RCW 24.03A.005.