LA contractor license bonds.
Flat 3%. Soft pull.
The Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors lets you satisfy its financial-responsibility requirement either by showing net worth or by filing a surety bond. If you bond, we write it at a flat 3% — one soft credit pull, never affecting your score, and the rate stays 3% either way.
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Three steps to filed.
Your contractor license is waiting on this bond. Here is the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, the bond amount the Board requires, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the application.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with the LSLBC
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your contractor license application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the Board insists.
The whole pricing page.
Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure the Board requires and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the contractor bond actually covers
To hold a license from the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, an applicant must show financial responsibility — typically a minimum net worth. When you cannot or prefer not to document that net worth, the Board accepts a surety bond in its place as the financial-responsibility showing.
The bond is a guarantee that you will comply with the contractor license law. The Board sets the amount — commonly in the $5,000–$10,000 range tied to the net-worth gap, and as high as $100,000 when an applicant’s financial statements do not meet the Board’s thresholds. Enter whatever figure the Board named for you.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Note that many Louisiana cities and parishes impose their own separate contractor bond requirements; this bond is the state-level LSLBC filing, not a local permit bond.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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The Licensing Board is waiting on one document.
Flat 3%, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.