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The Connecticut Surety Bail Bond Agent license

Surety Bail Bond Agent

Executes an undertaking of bail in Connecticut on behalf of a surety company. Twenty-five hours of pre-licensing education, which the Department sets and the statute does not, and the only Connecticut paper marked to eighty per cent instead of seventy.

Course

25 hrs

The shortest single course route.

Ways in

1

It requires the state exam.

Exam

Varies

Priced per paper. The prices are below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Take the 25-hour course, pass the paper at 80 per cent, and be appointed

    State exam required

    Pre-licensing education

    • 25 hours of surety bail bond pre-licensing education, approved by the Department , completed within 1 year

    and an insurer's notice of appointment

    • A notice of appointment executed by a surety insurer or its authorized representative authorizing the applicant to execute undertakings of bail and to solicit and negotiate them on its behalf, which under Conn. Gen. Stat. 38a-660(f)(2) is that insurer certifying the applicant competent, financially responsible and suitable

    The Department sets out the whole order on its own page: "Successfully complete the 25-hour surety bail bond pre-licensing course", then book the paper with the examination vendor, then apply through NIPR with the certificate of completion uploaded, then sign a Noncriminal Justice Applicant's Privacy Rights disclosure the Department emails only after the application is pending, then be fingerprinted with an agency code the Department will not release before that. The certificate is good for one year from issue. The hours are the Department's figure and not the statute's: Conn. Gen. Stat. 38a-660 carries no hour count anywhere, 38a-660(g) asks only that the applicant appear in person and sit a written examination, and 38a-660(j) lets the commissioner adopt regulations approving bail bond schools. No such regulation is in force. Every section of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies under 38a-660, the seven of them headed Bail Bond Producers Application and Renewal, is marked repealed. The paper is 12-CT-13, one hour, $55, and the vendor prints the mark for it separately from every other Connecticut examination: "The passing score required on the Bail Bonds is 80%. The passing score required on all other examinations is 70%."The applicant must also be at least eighteen, a United States citizen, never convicted of a disqualifying offense, and must send a copy of the whole application to the Asset Forfeiture Bureau of the Office of the Chief State's Attorney at the same time as filing it. One cost sits outside all of this and outside the Department's own license type table: Conn. Gen. Stat. 38a-660(k)(1)(A) charges every licensed surety bail bond agent $450 every 31 January to cover the cost of examining their books and records, and not paying it expires the license automatically on 1 February.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-20

A course is required and nobody sells one

Connecticut approves three bail bond courses and no national seller has one of them. The register holds Bail Bond School of CT in Bridgeport, Blackledge Training in Manchester and Tactical Countermeasures Group in New Britain, and two of the three are classroom only, so somebody outside the state cannot sit them. No national seller offers a Connecticut bail product. The register also disagrees with the Department about the length: the Department asks for twenty-five hours and two of the three courses carry twenty-five credits, while Blackledge Training's Bail Bond Pre-License Education Course is registered at seventy.