Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 700 - Insurance Licensing › Chapter 3 - Education Requirements › Section 20 CSR 700-3.200 - Continuing Education

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment describes how insurance
				  producers may receive continuing education credit hours because of their active
				  participation in a professional insurance association.
(1) Definitions. As used in this rule, unless
				the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean:
(A) Approved course-An educational
				presentation offered in a class, seminar, self-study, or other forms of
				instruction involving insurance fundamentals, insurance related law, insurance
				policies, claims and coverages, or other areas that have been approved by the
				director as expanding skills and knowledge in the lines of insurance for which
				the licensee is licensed, but not including subject matter relating to
				prospecting, motivation, sales/marketing techniques, psychology, recruiting,
				office skills or management training, and subjects not related to the insurance
				license;
(B) CEC-Continuing
				education credit for licensed insurance producers;
(C) Classroom-Course activities or
				information occurring in real time at a specific time, date, and place, and
				delivered via Internet or in person, such as, but not limited to, a
				seminar/workshop, webinar, virtual class, or teleconference. Student attendance
				is based on personally identifiable information (e.g., username, password,
				email, government-issued identification, signature) and student participation
				or interaction with course activities. Credit for classroom courses is based on
				attendance and activity, not examination;
(D) Continuing Education Certification
				Summary-A form provided by the director and completed by the licensee which
				documents compliance with the continuing education requirements in section
				375020., RSMo;
(E) Continuing
				Education Provider Application for Course Approval-A form provided by the
				director and completed by the course provider which requests approval of a
				continuing education course from the director;
(F) Teleconference course-A type of course
				featuring the live exchange of information among several persons who are remote
				from one another but linked by telecommunications and featuring audio, video,
				and/or data-sharing and offering opportunities for
				learner/instructor/facilitator interaction. Such a synchronous program of study
				has a specific start time and end time that validates student attendance
				through personally-identifiable information (e.g., username, password, email)
				and interactivity. Credit for teleconference courses is based on attendance and
				activity, not examination;
(G)
				Credit hour-Constitutes fifty (50) minutes of uninterrupted instruction
				pertaining to an approved course. Partial hours of credit are not
				allowed;
(H) Director-The director
				of the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional
				Registration, or the director's designee;
(I) Licensee-A person who is licensed by the
				department as an insurance producer;
(J) Local agent group-Any group of producers
				that reside or are domiciled in the state of Missouri and who are members of a
				recognized producers' association or insurance trade association;
(K) Other profession-A profession, other than
				that of insurance producer, which is regulated through licensure by the state
				of Missouri, for which the insurance producer is currently licensed, and which
				requires the licensee to complete a specified number of hours of continuing
				education requirements in order to maintain a license;
(L) Self-study course-Course activities or
				information delivered outside of real time (recorded or otherwise similarly
				accessible) and available at any time, such as, but not limited to,
				correspondence, online training, video, audio, CD, or DVD. Student attendance
				is verified based on identity (e.g., username, password, email, signature) and
				successful completion of an examination. Self-study courses do not require
				interaction with instructors; and
(M) Continuing Education Exemption
				Certificate-A form provided by the director and completed by persons that claim
				an exemption from the continuing education requirements under section
				375.020.8, RSMo.