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The Nevada Bail Agent license

Bail Agent

Writes bail bonds in Nevada under appointment by a surety insurer. Six hours of instruction, an examination as broad as the bail bond business, a bond of its own, and a year of Nevada residence before applying. The six hours are dated in this section and nowhere else: they are required of anyone qualifying on or after 1999-07-01. A nonresident bail agent is outside both the course and the examination, because NRS 697.150(2) sends a nonresident to three paragraphs only, and NRS 697.200(1) excludes the nonresident license by name.

Course

6 hrs

The shortest single course route.

Ways in

2

1 of them skips the state exam.

Exam

Varies

Priced per paper. The prices are below.

A single line paper is $37. The Life/Health or Property/Casualty combination is $47.

Every way to qualify

More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. They are listed in full because the course is only the first of them.

  1. Route 1 Take the 6-hour course

    State exam required

    • 6 hours of instruction in bail bonds, approved by the Department

    NRS 697.150(1)(g). The course has to be offered by a state or national organization of bail agents, or by another organization that runs training programs for the license, and then approved by the Commissioner: it is not a course a national insurance school sells. NAC 683A.225 sends whoever offers it to the same approval rules a producer course provider follows, which is the strictest set recorded on this site.

    Read at leg.state.nv.us on 2026-08-15

  2. Route 2 Relicense within 6 months of a lapse

    Exempt from the state exam

    • a Nevada bail agent license that has lapsed

    NRS 697.205. Six months from the date of lapse, and it removes the examination only. It says nothing about the six hours, which the qualification section asks of anyone entitled to receive, renew or hold the license.

    Read at leg.state.nv.us on 2026-08-15

A course is required and nobody sells one

No national seller sells a course for this license. Nevada's own register does hold three approved six-hour bail courses, which is what NRS 697.150(1)(g) asks: two from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, one classroom and one online, and a third from Northwest Career College that the register flags not public. None of the three comes from a national seller, so this is a local market rather than an empty one.