MI driver ed provider bonds.
$200. 999 or fewer students.
Michigan licenses driver education providers through the Secretary of State, with the bond sized to enrollment. A teen/adult provider with 999 or fewer students files a fixed $20,000 bond — ours is $200, the price our carrier sets for this specific bond. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Provider license bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Provider and owner details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit fields, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this 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 power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your driver education provider license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Michigan licenses driver education providers through the Secretary of State, and conditions the license on a surety bond whose amount scales with enrollment. A teen/adult provider with 999 or fewer students in the calendar year posts a $20,000 bond.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Michigan (the obligee), with students, financing agencies, and governmental agencies as the protected parties. The bond is conditioned to indemnify or reimburse a student, financing agency, or governmental agency for monetary loss caused through fraud, cheating, or misrepresentation in the conduct of the provider's business.
By statute, the surety pays a claim only after a court of record enters a judgment based on fraud, cheating, or misrepresentation against the provider, and total liability never exceeds the bond. The surety can cancel only on 30 days' notice — we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information, because this bond doesn't need it.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Finish your provider license today.
$200, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.