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. This requirement does not apply to agents licensed before 2024. *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.