Bail Bonds

What this bill does

Decreasing the duration of in-person classroom-instruction basic certification courses required to be considered for approval and certification as an approved limited surety agent and professional bail bond agent prelicensing school; prohibiting bail bond agents and agencies from soliciting certain persons; requiring, rather than authorizing, that any monetary or cash component of any form of pretrial release be met by specified means; requiring that, upon a court’s entry of an order to revoke pretrial release and order pretrial detention, the clerk of the court discharge any bond previously posted as a condition of pretrial release without further order of the court, etc.