Panel backs bill to modernize producer pre-licensing requirements while keeping ethics training

Apr 2, 2025

AB 943 would remove time-based, line-specific prelicensing hour mandates for insurance producers while preserving 12 hours of ethics and code instruction; proponents say it increases access to the profession, opponents call for rightsizing rather than elimination of hours.

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Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez presented AB 943 to streamline producer prelicensing education by removing rigid 20-hour, line-specific instruction mandates and retaining 12 hours focused on ethics and code study. The author and industry sponsors said the measure would make licensure more accessible to people with time and financial constraints while preserving the exam as the principal gatekeeper.

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