California Code of Regulations › Title 10 - Investment › Chapter 5 - Insurance Commissioner › Subchapter 1 - Production of Insurance › Article 6.5 - Prelicensing and Continuing Education › Section 2188.6 - Successful Completion of Continuing Education Courses

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Students shall attend all of a scheduled
				  contact course, as defined in Section
				  2186.1(e)(1); any
				  exceptions must be approved by the instructor/subject matter expert or provider
				  director and must not violate the minimum attendance requirements listed below
				  in Section
				  2188.6(b). The
				  provider/instructor/subject matter expert has the authority to withhold credit
				  for program completion when, in his or her opinion, the student did not pay
				  satisfactory attention or otherwise failed to demonstrate acceptable student
				  conduct in class.
(b) Except as set
				  forth in other subsections of this section, successful completion of a contact
				  course referred to in Section
				  1749.4(o)
				  of the California Insurance Code shall be by attending at least eighty percent
				  (80%) of a scheduled course.
(c)
				  Course attendance of a live prelicensing or continuing education classroom
				  course shall be determined by the provider completing and maintaining a daily
				  attendance record, at both the beginning and end of each session, in the same
				  manner as described in Section
				  2188.5(b).
				  Attendance for an interactive continuing education course, as defined in
				  Section 2186.1(e)(1)(D),
				  may be by maintaining an electronic attendance record of student log-in/out of
				  the class session and instructor roll-call record.
(d) Providers of courses referenced in
				  Section
				  1749.4(n)
				  of the California Insurance Code are exempt from the attendance record keeping
				  requirements of Section
				  2188.5(b) above.
				  A student's successful completion of such courses will be by obtaining a
				  passing grade of at least seventy percent (70%) on a final examination or an
				  instructor's/subject matter expert's certification that such student attended
				  at least eighty percent (80%) of the contact course.
(e) Students taking non-contact courses, as
				  defined in Section
				  2186.1(e)(2) must
				  meet the provider's established criteria for acceptable work. Successful
				  completion of non-contact courses shall mean obtaining a passing grade of at
				  least seventy percent (70%) on a final examination. The final examination shall
				  be graded by the provider. The provider shall issue certificates of completion
				  only to those students who have passed the final examination.
(f) Interactive courses, as defined in
				  Section 2186.1(e)(1)(D)
				  consisting of only video or audio programs, conducted in supervised
				  environments involving attendance monitoring, such as work stations or
				  conference rooms, may qualify for continuing education credit without the use
				  of a final examination. A student's successful completion of such a course
				  shall be by attending all of the scheduled time; any exceptions must be
				  approved by an instructor/subject matter expert or provider director and must
				  not violate the minimum attendance requirements. Attendance shall be verified
				  by a provider who reviews and compares the electronic attendance record and
				  instructor roll-call record as stated in Section
				  2188.6(c).
(g) No course shall be taken for credit more
				  than once within a two (2) year license period.
(h) Excess ethics continuing education hours
				  accumulated during any license term may not be carried forward to the next
				  license term. Pursuant to Section
				  2188.6(g), no
				  course shall be taken for credit more than once within a two (2) year license
				  term.
1. New
					 section filed 4-15-93; operative 5-17-93 (Register 93, No. 16).
2.
					 Repealer and new section filed 8-23-96; operative 9-22-96 (Register 96, No.
					 34).
3. Amendment of subsections (d) and (f), new subsections
					 (h)-(j) and new NOTE filed 5-25-2006; operative 6-24-2006 (Register 2006, No.
					 21).
4. Amendment of section and NOTE filed 10-22-2014; operative
					 2-19-2015 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4(b)(2)
					 (Register 2014, No. 43).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						1749.7,
						Insurance Code. Reference: Sections
						1749,
						1749.1,
						1749.3,
						1749.31,
						1749.32,
						1749.33,
						1749.4,
						1749.5,
						1749.8,
						1749.85,
						10113.2(b)(1)(A)
						and 10234.93(a)(4),
						Insurance Code.