(a) An individual licensed as a limited lines automobile insurance agent shall complete required continuing education courses, programs of instruction, or seminars approved by the commissioner. The minimum number of hours required is 20 hours, of which three hours shall be in ethics, per license term prior to the renewal of the license. 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 limited automobile insurance 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.

Terms Used In California Insurance Code 1749.32

  • Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • insurance agent: as used in this chapter does not include a life agent as defined in this article. See California Insurance Code 1621
  • license: includes a certificate of convenience and a permanent license, and the term "persons who are licensed" includes the holders of any such certificate or the license, but these definitions and the use of those terms in this chapter shall not confer upon a certificate of convenience or any holder thereof any property right in or to the certificate, the certificate being and remaining only a temporary permit, issued as a matter of convenience, allowing the transaction of insurance without a permanent license, but within the limits, and subject to the conditions of the certificate of convenience issued and the laws applicable thereto. See California Insurance Code 1627

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 424, Sec. 17. (SB 1242) Effective January 1, 2023.)