MANAGE LEGISLATIVE & LEAD UPDATE fees involved with the agency and agent renewal process , and the KID agreed to reduce the fees to an amount of $ 4 . This was an extremely large reduction compared to the KID ’ s initial proposal .
• The bill would increase the number of continuing education credit hours required for biennial license renewal from 12 to 18 for agents qualified for any combination of the following lines of authority : life , health , property , casualty , accident , and personal . While single lines agents will see a six hour increase in CE requirements , dual-licensed agents will realize a 6-hour reduction . Approximately 55 % of Kansas agents are dual licensed and will see a decrease in CE hours required . SB402 originally proposed increasing the CE requirements from 12 to 24 , which is the NAIC ’ s suggested national standard . KAIA pushed back hard on the 24 hours . The KID ’ s willingness to reduce the bills CE requirements to 18 and the deeply reduced $ 4 biennial renewal fee mentioned above were critical in garnering KAIA support .
• Of the education credits , the bill would increase insurance ethics hours from one to three hours . KAIA also worked with KID to remove the cap limiting agency management related education to six hours . So , the remaining 15 hours can be general continuing credits without regard to the content topic .
• The bill will remove the automatic appointment of affiliated agents for companies . If adopted , only individual agents and not agencies will be appointed by companies .
• Eliminate the current statutory requirement of waiting six months before taking the licensing exam if failed three times in a row . This is new language KAIA worked to secure .
• Eliminate the current statutory requirement that selfstudy CE have a proctored exam . This is new language KAIA worked to include .
• Eliminate the current statutory requirement that if an agent moves their license to inactive status , they must wait two years before applying to have it reactivated . This is new language that was not in SB402 .
After months of negotiations and significant changes to the Insurance Department ’ s original legislative language , the KAIA Government Affairs Committee voted to support the new licensing bill .
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KAIA fought to ensure the final version of the new producer licensure bill was balanced and , as a whole , providing benefit to most agents and brokers .
Administrative Subpoena Authority for KID . In 2020 , the Department introduced SB291 , which would have allowed the Insurance Commissioner to make investigations and examinations regarding the insurance code . The Commissioner could appoint investigators to conduct anti-
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