Washington State Requirements

Updated: 03/12/2012

Continuing Education Hours

• Producers: 24 hours biennially.
• Individuals licensed for vehicle authority will be required to comply with continuing education requirements beginning with renewals.

Course Subject Requirements

• No more than 8 CE credit hours can be completed in a 24 hour period.
• Agents must complete 3 hours of ethics education.
• Agents can take courses from any license type to complete their CE, however, the OIC suggests that licensees take courses covering the lines of insurance they are involved with most often.

• Agents wishing to sell LTC must also complete a 8-hourLTC requirement prior to selling LTC products. The LTC requirement counts towards the completion of the basic CE requirement. By the end of each consecutive renewal period, agents must complete a 4-hour "refresher" state-approved LTC course to continue selling LTC.
• Agents wishing to sell flood insurance must also complete a one-time, 3 hour flood course approved for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) training.
• Effective March 29, 2012: all agents wishing to sell annuities must also complete a one-time, 4 hour annuities course by September 29, 2012.

Continuing Education Compliance Date

Same as license renewal date.

License Renewal Date

License renewal date is the licensee's date of birth, biennially.

Type of courses accepted for CE Credit

Independent self-study courses or classroom.

Carryover Requirements

Carryover of excess CE credit hours is not allowed.

Course Repetition

Credit will not be given for courses taken more than once in a three year period.

Final Exam

Final exams are not required to be monitored.

Exemptions

• Nonresidents (unless they sell long-term care).
• Individuals who are at least 65 years of age, are retired from active selling of insurance products and no longer represent any insurer or insurance agency.
• Any person who believes that good cause exists may request a waiver of the CE requirement.

• Resident adjusters and producers holding only limited credit insurance, travel insurance, or surety licenses are exempt from CE requirements.

Method to Certify Completion

You will be able to print your certificate of completion online once you have completed your exam. The course provider will submit credits earned to the CE administrator within one business day of course completion.  The licensee keeps the original certificates of completion in their files for three years. LTC credits: the insurer certifies to the Commissioner that its appointees are in compliance with the requirement.

Nonresidents

Exempt, except for long-term care requirement.

For Additional Information please Contact:

Office of Ins. Commissioner
Attn: Licensing
P.O. Box 40257
Olympia, WA 98504-0257

Phone: (360) 725-7146 or (360) 725-7144
Fax: (360) 586-2019
or Promissor - (800) 274-8949

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

 CE Subscriptions

Monitor Information

Many states require that your test be monitored by a 3rd party when you take this course. The person taking the test and the monitor must sign an affidavit and submit it to the CE Provider. Those states are:

Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbie, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Other states require no monitor, but still require an affidavit to be filled out and submitted to the CE Provider before credit can be granted for a passed course. Those states are:

Florida and Ohio.

If you are going to be requesting a certificate or credit in any of the states' mentioned, then you will need to have a monitor present when you take the 8 hour course, and have them fill out the correct monitor form (one for each state you are requesting the certificate from that requires a monitor). You can find all of the monitor forms by clicking here.