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Now Available: California Life Insurance Policies 4-Hour Training and Continuing Education

California requires life insurance agents licensed after January 1, 2024 to complete 4 hours of training before selling cash-value life insurance policies to individual consumers, effective January 1, 2025. This training, available through ExamFX, fulfills the requirement and provides 4 hours of continuing education credit for license renewal.

Due to new regulation in California, a life agent licensed on or after January 1, 2024, must complete 4 hours of training before soliciting individual consumers to buy life insurance other than term life.    

Found in: California Insurance Code section 1749.81(a), in SB 263 (Dodd, Chapter 2, Statutes of 2024) Insurance: annuities and life insurance policies. This law takes effect on January 1, 2025. Read more

ExamFX is an approved provider under the "2025 Life Insurance Policies 4-Hour" category.

The course will:

  • Fulfill the 4-hour training requirement for insurance producers who are selling cash value life insurance policies (not term insurance).
    • Applies only to life producers licensed since January 1, 2024. Anyone licensed before January 1, 2024 is not subject to this requirement.
  • Earn 4 hours of continuing education toward license renewal.

Who is required to take this course?  

  • Life producers licensed on or after January 1, 2024, who sell cash-value life insurance products other than term life to individual consumers, must complete this training by January 1, 2025. 
  • Starting January 1, 2025, all newly licensed Life and LH producers will need this course immediately upon being licensed (before they can sell non-term cash-value life policies to individual consumers). 
  • Applies to resident and nonresident producers. 

* Life agents licensed before 2024 are NOT REQUIRED to complete this training. 

Learn more about the ExamFX course and register now.