KS notary bonds.
$360. Five minutes.
Kansas requires every notary public to file a $12,000 surety bond with the Secretary of State, written for the four-year commission term. Three percent of $12,000 is $360 flat. This is the bond by itself — without errors-and-omissions coverage — and there is no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Notary bonds are about as simple as surety gets. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Request the bond in the name of the individual being commissioned, with an effective date. That's the application — no credit check section.
Pay & e-sign
Notary bonds are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Secretary of State
Your executed bond and the surety form (NO-S) arrive by email, ready to file with your notary appointment application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$12,000 bond × 3% = $360 for the four-year commission term. Fixed amount, fixed price.
What it is and who needs it.
What the notary bond actually guarantees
Kansas requires a notary public to file a $12,000 surety bond with the Secretary of State before being commissioned, under K.S.A. 53-5a22. The amount rose to $12,000 effective January 1, 2022, and the bond is written for the four-year term of the commission.
The bond is a public-protection guarantee: it gives someone harmed by a notary's improper act — a botched acknowledgment, a misdated certificate, notarizing without the signer present — a way to recover up to $12,000. The surety completes the state's NO-S form and the notary files it with the appointment.
A surety bond is not insurance for the notary. If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Notaries who want protection for their own mistakes add separate errors-and-omissions (E&O) coverage — this listing is the bond only, without E&O, which is the bare statutory requirement.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
Request the bond in the name of the person being commissioned. These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
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$360 flat for the four-year term, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.