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Arkansas State Requirements

Updated: 04/03/2009 

Continuing Education Hours

• Life and/or Accident & Health - 8 hours every year
• Property/Casualty - 8 hours every year
• Personal Lines- 8 hours every year
• Life & Property/Casualty/Personal Lines - 10 hours every year
• Accident & Health & Property/Casualty/Personal Lines - 10 hours every year
• Life/Accident & Health & Property/Casualty - 10 hours every year

Course Subject Requirements

• 1 hour must be in ethics.
• Courses may not be repeated within a 2 year period. This does not apply to one (1) hour ethics courses only. Currently all of our ethics courses are approved for more than one (1) hour and therefore can not be repeated.

Continuing Education Compliance Date

All continuing education credits must be achieved by the date of the license renewal.

License renewal date is the agent's date of birth annually.

Type of Courses Accepted for CE Credit

Independent self study courses or classroom courses.

Carryover Requirements

Excess educational hours accumulated during any annual period may be carried forward only to the next annual period. Continuing education carried forward to the following calendar year shall expire upon commencement of the third annual period following completion of the hours.

Course Repetition

Courses may not be repeated within a 2 year period. This does not apply to one (1) hour ethics courses only. Currently all ethics courses are approved for more than one (1) hour and therefore can not be repeated.

Final Exam

Final exams are required to be monitored by a Disinterested Third Party. Proctors or instructors must be a disinterested third party and shall NOT serve for examinations of: family members or relatives or dependents, employers or supervisors, employees or subordinates, partners or joint ventures or co-owners, current or former teachers or pupils, neighbors or personal friends or significant others, or for anyone in whom the proctor or instructor has an economic or other interest in assuring the successful outcome of the examination. See monitor Tab for monitor form(s).

Exemptions

• Nonresident Producers are not required to complete continuing education courses. 
• Any person who is licensed in the state of Arkansas less than one year upon renewal.
• Any person who is at least 60 years of age, but only if licensed prior to 7/1/03.
• Any person who has been actively licensed as an agent or broker for at least 15 consecutive years, but only if licensed prior to 7/1/03.
• Any person holding limited lines licenses for which they do not have to take an exam.
• Any person holding a limited or restricted license.
• Individuals in their first full year of licensure following the year they made a change in residency or domicile to Arkansas.
• Third-party administrators who do not solicit business.

Method to Certify Exemption

Your certificate of completion will be e-mailed to you once you have completed your exam. Provider reports course completion within one business day of course completion. Provider will issue certificate of completion to each licensee for each course passed. Licensee is required to remit CE filing fee at time of license renewal.

Arkansas Insurance Department
Licensing Division

1200 W. Third St.
Little Rock, AR 72201-1904

Phone: (501) 371-2750

E-mail: Insurance.License@arkansas.gov 

FAX: (501) 683-2604

State Website: http://www.insurance.arkansas.gov/

Course Format

If your state requires monitored exams, you must have your monitor sign-in and follow the monitor instructions BEFORE you begin the exam.  See the State Information tab, Monitor tab and Help Center for more information.

 CE Subscriptions

Optional PACE or CFP Credit

Many of our Insurance CE courses are also approved for CE credit for agents who hold professional designations such as CLU, ChFC, CFP. The type of CE credit and number of hours approved are listed above in the course description.