SB 822 - Bail Bond Agents

• Eliminates the temporary bail bond agent license category and converts it to full licensure requirements for limited surety agents and professional bail bond agents.

• Requires persons managing bail bond agencies to be licensed, appointed, employed, and actively engaged as a bail bond agent for at least 24 months before owning, controlling, or having a pecuniary interest in an agency.

• Reduces the coursework completion timeframe from 4 years to 2 years before applying for licensure and requires continuing education classes to be classroom instruction only.

• Creates a new "primary bail bond agent" designation with requirements including 2 years of prior licensure and appointment, with application details prescribed by the department.

• Expands assault and battery penalties to include bail bond agents as protected persons and adds provisions allowing 100 percent remission of bond forfeitures when defendants are deceased or when the state refuses extradition requests.