State required training for insurance producers that sell annuity products.

Initial Training
Hours: 4
Frequency: One-time training must be complete prior to selling annuity products.

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State required training for insurance producers that sell long-term care products.

Initial Training
Hours: 8
Frequency: One-time training must be complete prior to selling LTC products.

Ongoing Training
Hours: 4
Frequency: Ongoing training must be complete every 24 months, following the initial training requirement.

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State required training for insurance producers that sell flood insurance products.

One-Time Training
Hours: 3
Frequency: One-time training must be completed to sell flood insurance products.

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The license term is the last day of the licensee’s birth month every 2 years. Licensees who were born in an even-numbered year will be required to complete their CE in even-numbered years. Licensees who were born in an odd-numbered year will be required to complete their CE in odd-numbered years.

Agents must have their CE credit hours posted prior to their expiration date and prior to applying to renew their insurance license(s). Providers have 30 days to report your CE completions, so please plan accordingly to avoid a lapse in licensure.

Producers may carry over a maximum of 12 excess credit hours to the next license term. However, this carryover allowance does not apply to ethics CE credit requirements. Excess ethics hours will be counted as general credit. Any course hours carried over to the next renewal will be counted as duplicate if the same course is taken again.

You cannot repeat the same course within 2 years from the original course completion date.

Note: Producers in your first CE Compliance Period: Please check your SBS transcript before ordering. If your first CE Compliance Period is for longer than 2 calendar years (For example: 3/30/2011-1/31/2014), you will not receive credit for a course repeated within this Compliance Period, even though the course may have been completed more than 2 calendar years from the previous completion date.

Online and paper self-study.

Self-Study Requirements: Students should read the course material prior to taking the final exam.

Licensees may complete their 24-hour CE requirement by taking courses approved for any line of authority. Public Adjusters & Crop Adjusters are only required to have ethics within their 24-hour requirement. An Adjuster may complete 1-hour of ethics and be compliant with the ethics requirement.

The final exam is open-book. Students may refer to the course material as often as needed. If the final exam is not passed on the first attempt, students have an unlimited number of retakes.

Exam Proctor Requirements: Exams are open-book and do not require a monitor.

Self-Study Final Exam: 70%

WebCE provides online, printable certificates of completion in Tennessee. Certificates of completion will be available to print online immediately after a final exam is passed. Producers must keep the original certificates of completion in their files for 2 years.

Next-Day Reporting: WebCE reports course completions to State Based Systems (SBS) every business day.

Non-residents who satisfy the training requirements of another state that are similar to Tennessee's law will be deemed compliant for Tennessee's requirement.

Non-resident producers who meet the education and training requirements of their home state will be deemed to meet the requirements for education and training in Tennessee.

For non-resident licensees, in order to use this service, you must hold an active license in your resident state.

The following are exempt from CE requirements:

• Limited Lines producers.
• Public adjusters licensed less than 1 full year.
• An insurance producer who has been continuously licensed since January 1, 1994.
• Nonresident public adjusters who have met the CE requirements in their home state, which MUST reciprocate with TN, are not required to complete CE requirements for Tennessee.

In addition, producers who have been licensed continuously since Jan. 1, 1994, are still required to complete the initial LTC 8-hour requirement, but they are exempt from the ongoing training 4-hour LTC course.