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Insurance Code § 1749.31

ARTICLE 13.5. Prelicensing and Continuing Education

Current as of September 28, 2026Ins. Code, § 1749.31Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 424, Sec. 16. (SB 1242) Effective January 1, 2023.

(a) An individual licensed as a personal lines broker-agent shall complete required continuing education courses, programs of instruction, or seminars approved by the commissioner. The personal lines broker-agent shall complete 24 hours, of which three hours shall be in ethics, during each two-year license term as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 1625.5. On and after March 1, 2023, the three-hour ethics course shall include one hour of study on insurance fraud.

(b) An individual licensed as a personal lines broker-agent and as a life agent or accident and health or sickness agent shall satisfy the requirements of this section by satisfactorily completing 24 hours of instruction prior to renewal of the license.