SB 600: Bail Bonds
GENERAL BILL by Truenow
Bail Bonds; 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.
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 11/19/2025 Senate • Filed
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SB 600, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/19/2025 at 3:28 PM
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF Analyses: None Citations - Statutes (24)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 626.2816 Regulation of continuing education for licensees, course providers, instructors, school officials, and monitor groups. Page 36 (pdf) 648.25 Definitions. Page 6 (pdf) 648.386 Qualifications for prelicensing and continuing education schools and instructors. Page 6 (pdf) 648.44 Prohibitions; penalty. Page 7 (pdf) 648.45 Actions against a licensee; suspension or revocation of eligibility to hold a license. Page 35 (pdf) 903.011 Pretrial release; general terms; statewide uniform bond schedule. Page 9 (pdf) 903.046 Purpose of and criteria for bail determination. Page 9 (pdf) 903.047 Conditions of pretrial release. Page 36 (pdf) 903.0471 Violation of condition of pretrial release. Page 10 (pdf) 903.05 Qualification of sureties. Page 10 (pdf) 903.08 Sufficiency of sureties. Page 10 (pdf) 903.09 Justification of sureties. Page 10 (pdf) 903.101 Sureties; licensed persons; to have equal access. Page 11 (pdf) 903.16 Deposit of money or bonds as bail. Page 11 (pdf) 903.17 Substitution of cash bail for other bail. Page 12 (pdf) 903.21 Method of surrender; exoneration of obligors. Page 12 (pdf) 903.26 Forfeiture of the bond; when and how directed; discharge; how and when made; effect of payment. Page 13 (pdf) 903.27 Forfeiture to judgment. Page 18 (pdf) 903.28 Remission of forfeiture; conditions. Page 22 (pdf) 903.286 Return of cash bond; requirement to withhold unpaid fines, fees, court costs; cash bond forms. Page 38 (pdf) 903.29 Arrest of principal by surety after forfeiture. Page 28 (pdf) 903.31 Canceling the bond. Page 28 (pdf) 903.36 Guaranteed arrest bond certificates as cash bail. Page 29 (pdf) 907.041 Pretrial detention and release. Page 29 (pdf)