California Insurance Continuing Education Requirements
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California Senate Bill (SB) 263 imposes new and updated continuing education requirements for life and health insurance agents. Those requirements are shown below.
Annuity Training To solicit or sell annuities in California in 2025, here is what’s needed *New Agents – If you became licensed as an agent on or after January 1, 2025, you must complete an 8-hour annuity continuing education course titled 2025 Eight-Hour Annuity Training before offering annuities. *Existing Agents – If you are an existing agent, you must complete an 8-hour annuity continuing education course titled 2025 Eight-Hour Annuity Training before July 1, 2025. *All agents must complete a 4-hour annuity continuing education course titled 2025 Four-Hour Annuity Training before your next license renewal, beginning with your January 31, 2025 renewal. Click the course titles to read the 2025 Eight-Hour Annuity Training and 2025 Four-Hour Annuity Training course descriptions. |
Long Term Care Training To solicit or sell long term care insurance in California in 2025 here’s what’s needed: *All Agents – Agents must complete an 8-hour continuing education course titled California 8-Hour Long-Term Care Training before offering long-term care insurance. *Agents licensed less than 4 years – Agents licensed less than 4 years must complete eight hours of long-term care training every year for the first four years they are licensed, (without duplicating courses within the same 2-year license term if CE credit is desired). In the agent’s fifth year, the agent must complete 8 hours of LTC training during each two-year licensing term thereafter. *Exempt Agents – All agents that sell long-term care insurance, who are exempt from continuing education requirements, must complete a long-term care course once during each term. Click the course title to read the California 8-Hour Long-Term Care Training course description. |
Life Insurance Training To solicit or sell non-term life insurance in California in 2025 here’s what’s needed: *All Agents – Agents must complete a 4-hour continuing education course titled California Life Insurance Policies Training before soliciting non-term life insurance. *Agents licensed in 2024 – Agents licensed in 2024 have until January 1, 2025, to take this course. *Agents licensed after January 1, 2025 – Agents licensed on and after January 1, 2025 must complete this course before soliciting non-term life insurance. Click on the course title to read the California Life Insurance Policies Training course description. |
Variable Life Insurance Training To solicit or sell variable life insurance in California in 2025 here’s what’s needed: *All Agents – Agents properly registered with FINRA must complete a 2-hour continuing education course titled California Variable Life Insurance Policies Training before soliciting variable life insurance and must take a 2-hour Variable Life Insurance continuing education course each renewal period. Click the course title to read the California Variable Life Insurance Policies Training course description. |
Available California Insurance Courses:
Clicking the course title below and above will take you to the course description and course registration:
- 2025 Eight-Hour Annuity Training 8 hour course
- California 8-Hour Long-Term Care Training 8 hour course
- California Life Insurance Policies Training 4 hour course
- 2025 Four-Hour Annuity Training 4 hour course
- California Variable Life Insurance Policies Training 2 hour course
NOTE: Please be certain to enter your California Agent License Number correctly when registering to ensure your course completion credits are reported correctly to Sircon.