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In order to renew your insurance license, you must complete the required continuing education hours for the lines of insurance that you are licensed in. All of the hours must be completed and reported prior to your license renewal date to avoid a lapse in your license.
Total Hours
24 hours biennially for Producers
Compliance Renewal Date
Renewal date is the last day of the licensee's birth month, biennially. You must be CE compliant at least ten (10) business days prior to your renewal date.
There is no extension to complete your CE and if you are late, a penalty fee of double the unpaid license fee wil be assessed.
You may also need to take specific courses or earn specific credit types to renew your license. These course completions will count toward the total hour requirement.
For All Licenses:
Ethics
3 hrs - Producers must complete 3 hrs of Ethics as part of the total requirement. Ethics courses must be completed in either a classroom or webinar setting.
For Life & Health Producers:
Annuity Suitability
4 hrs - Producers must complete a one-time 4-hour Annuity Suitability Certification Training prior to selling, soliciting, or negotiating annuity products.
Long-Term Care
8/4 hrs - Producers must complete an initial 8-hour Long-Term Care (LTC) Certification Training prior to selling, soliciting, or negotiating Long-Term Care products/policies. After completing the initial requirement, producers must complete a 4-hour ongoing LTC training, due every renewal thereafter. If a refresher course is not taken within 12 months after the date by which it was required another initial training course is required.
For Property & Casualty Producers:
Flood
3 hrs - Property/Casualty producers must complete a one-time 3-hour course on NFIP Flood Insurance Certification Training prior to selling flood insurance policies.
There are also additional rules about how the course hours can be applied.
A maximum of 12 hours may be carried over into the next renewal period. Excess Ethics credits will not fulfill the Ethics requirement for future periods.
Courses may not be taken more than once in a reporting period.
If you meet any of criteria below, you may be exempt from the continuing education requirements.
Once you have determined the renewal requirements for your license, you can register for courses. Each course has an associated credit type; when registering for courses, select courses with credit types that will help to fulfill the renewal requirements for your license.
PreLicenseTraining.com offers classroom, webinar, online, and self study courses for Illinois. You can register for courses at CE Courses.
You must fulfill the course requirements for each of the courses to have them reported.
Illinois Continuing Education courses do not require a monitor.
Once a course has been completed, the completion must be reported to the state. PreLicenseTraining.com will report the course completions to State Based Systems.
Once you have satisfied the renewal requirements for your license, you can file a renewal application at www.sircon.com.
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