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The Missouri General Bail Bond Agent license

General Bail Bond Agent

The principal of the bail bond business, and the person a bail bond agent works under. Missouri asks it for the same twenty-four hours, plus affidavits and an assignment of ten thousand dollars that no other Missouri license requires.

Course

24 hrs

The shortest single course route.

Ways in

1

It requires the state exam.

Exam

$25

Required.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Complete the 24 hours, then pass the paper

    State exam required

    Initial basic training

    • 24 hours of initial basic training for the bail bond and surety recovery profession, approved by the Department of Commerce and Insurance, and from 2026-08-28 by its division of professional registration under the board at s. 324.1102; neither the Department's page nor the act names the approving body in terms

    and the examination

    • Pearson examines the family under the Missouri Insurance program: Bail Bonds Agent is exam series 23 and Surety Recovery Agent is series 57, each one hour at $25.

    and age and schooling

    • Twenty-one years old, a United States citizen, and a high school diploma or GED certificate. Twenty-one is the highest minimum age on any Missouri insurance license, where every other one is eighteen.

    and the financial assignment

    • Specific affidavits and an assignment of $10,000, which Pearson's candidate handbook prints in the special requirement column against this license and against no other. Section 324.2103(7) also asks for the commitment: a general bail bond agent "devotes at least fifty percent of his or her working time to the bail bond business in this state".

    The Department's Other Licensees page sets out the qualification in five bullets and the fourth is "Completed an approved 24 hour initial basic training course". Pearson's Missouri candidate handbook prints the same twenty-four hours in the education column of its license table, against "None" for every producer line. The license runs two years at $150 and renews at $150. Missouri distinguishes the surety bail bond agent, appointed by an insurer by power of attorney, from the property bail bondsman, who pledges currency, money orders, cashier's checks or other property, and 324.2103 defines both inside the same act. The statutes moved house on 2026-08-28: the Professional Bail Bondsman and Surety Recovery Agent Licensure Act was transferred out of chapter 374 into sections 324.2100 to 324.2187 by S.B. 1421 of 2026. The Department of Commerce and Insurance still issues the license and its own insurance-side Other Licensees page still carries it, but 324.2103 defines the director as the director of the division of professional registration and puts the license under the board of private investigators, private fire investigators and professional surety bail bond agents at 324.1102.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-20

A course is required and nobody sells one

Aceable does not sell Missouri at all. The same twenty-four hours of approved initial basic training, and the same absence: no national seller carries a Missouri bail bond product and no list of approved courses is published.