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In order to renew your insurance license, you must complete the required continuing education hours for the lines of insurance that you are licensed in. All of the hours must be completed and reported prior to your license renewal date to avoid a lapse in your license.
Total Hours
24 hours biennially for Producers & Adjusters licensed less than 20 years
20 hours biennially for Producers & Adjusters licensed for more than 20 years
Compliance Renewal Date
Renewal date is the last day of the licensee's birth month, biennially. For the renewal period ending in 2015, some licensees may receive a renewed license for a term less than 24 months and will have a pro-rated renewal fee for the period. Click here for more information on the new renewal cycle and conversion schedule.
You may also need to take specific courses or earn specific credit types to renew your license. These course completions will count toward the total hour requirement.
Courses must be in the license type held.
For All Licenses:
Ethics
3 hrs - Producers & Adjusters must complete 3 hrs of Ethics as part of the total requirement. Excess Ethics hours will count toward the total hour requirement.
For Life & Health Producers:
Annuities Suitability
4 hrs - Effective March 1, 2016, producers who sell or wish to sell, solicit or negotiate annuities must complete an approved one-time 4-Hour Annuity Suitability Certification Training. Producers who hold a life license and desire to sell annuities products must complete an approved one-time 4 hour course no later than September 1, 2016. Producers who obtain a Life license on or after March 1, 2016, may not engage in the sale of annuities until the 4-Hour annuity training course has been completed. The satisfaction of the training requirements of another state that are substantially similar to this requirement shall be deemed to satisfy the requirement in Georgia.
Long-Term Care
8/4 hrs - Producers must complete an initial 8-hour Long-Term Care (LTC) Certification Training prior to selling, soliciting, or negotiating Long-Term Care products/policies. After completing the initial requirement, producers must complete a 4-hour ongoing LTC training, due every renewal thereafter.
For Property & Casualty Producers:
Flood
3 hrs - Property/Casualty producers must complete a one-time 3-hour course on NFIP Flood Insurance Certification Training prior to selling flood insurance policies.
There are also additional rules about how the course hours can be applied.
Excess hours (to a maximum of 1/2 of CE requirement for the next renewal period) can be carried forward to the next renewal period). Excess Ethics hours may be applied to regular hours, but not carried forward as Ethics hours.
Courses may not be taken more than once in a reporting period.
If you meet any of criteria below, you may be exempt from the continuing education requirements.
Once you have determined the renewal requirements for your license, you can register for courses. Each course has an associated credit type; when registering for courses, select courses with credit types that will help to fulfill the renewal requirements for your license.
PreLicenseTraining.com offers classroom, webinar, online, and self study courses for Colorado. You can register for courses at CE Courses.
You must fulfill the course requirements for each of the courses to have them reported.
*Online and self study exams are required to be monitored by a disinterested third party (a person with no family or financial relationship).
Once a course has been completed, the completion must be reported to the state. PreLicenseTraining.com will report the course completions to Sircon.
Once you have satisfied the renewal requirements for your license, you can file a renewal application at www.sircon.com.
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