Texas Administrative Code › Title 28 - INSURANCE › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE › Chapter 19 - LICENSING AND REGULATION OF INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS › Subchapter K - CONTINUING EDUCATION, ADJUSTER PRELICENSING EDUCATION PROGRAMS, AND CERTIFICATION COURSES › Section 19.1009 - Types of Courses

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Continuing
				  education courses may be qualifying courses and certified classroom, classroom
				  equivalent, and self study courses offered by registered providers.
(b) Providers shall offer adjuster
				  prelicensing courses only as a complete course of study for the particular
				  adjuster's license type designation that meets the requirements of §
										19.1003(c)
				  of this title (relating to Licensee Requirements) and §
										19.1017
				  of this title (relating to Adjuster Prelicensing Education Course Content and
				  Examination Requirements). The course of study may consist of classroom,
				  classroom equivalent, and self study instruction. Providers may offer a variety
				  of courses for each adjuster's license designation.
(c) Providers must offer long-term care
				  partnership certification courses only as a complete course of study that meets
				  the requirements of §
										19.1022
				  of this subchapter (relating to Long-Term Care Partnership Certification
				  Course). The course of study for long-term care partnership certification
				  courses may consist of classroom, classroom equivalent, and self-study
				  instruction.
(d) Providers must
				  offer Medicare-related product certification courses only as a complete course
				  of study that meets the requirements of §
										19.1024
				  of this subchapter (relating to Medicare-Related Product Certification Course).
				  The course of study for Medicare-related product certification courses may
				  consist of classroom, classroom equivalent, and self-study
				  instruction.
(e) Providers must
				  offer small employer health benefit plan specialty certification courses only
				  as a complete course of study that meets the requirements of §
										19.1026
				  of this subchapter (relating to Small Employer Health Benefit Plan Specialty
				  Certification Course). The course of study for small employer health benefit
				  plan specialty certification courses may consist of classroom, classroom
				  equivalent, and self-study instruction.
(f) Providers must offer annuity
				  certification courses only as a complete course of study that meets the
				  requirements of paragraphs §19.1028(g)(1) - (4) of this subchapter
				  (relating to Annuity Certification Course). The course of study for annuity
				  certification courses may consist of classroom, classroom equivalent, and
				  self-study instruction.
(g)
				  Classroom courses may include lectures, seminars, audio, video, computer-based
				  instruction, and teleconferences that meet the following requirements:
(1) A disinterested third party attendant, an
				  instructor, or a disinterested third party using visual observation technology
				  must visually monitor attendance either inside or at all exits to the course
				  presentation area at all times during the course presentation.
(2) At least three students and an instructor
				  must be involved in each presentation of the course; however, in circumstances
				  involving remote presentations, all students and the instructor do not need to
				  be in the same location. In the case of presenting recorded or text materials,
				  the instructor making the live course presentation does not have to be the same
				  instructor included on the recorded presentation or who prepared the text
				  materials.
(3) Question and answer
				  and discussion periods must be provided by:
(A) an instructor making a live presentation
				  of the course to licensees in the same room or via real-time live audio or
				  audio-visual connection which shall allow for immediate student inquiries and
				  responses with the presenting instructor; or
(B) an instructor who is present for the
				  entire remote, recorded, or computer-based course presentation to students in
				  the same room which shall allow for immediate inquiries and responses of
				  students to the instructor.
(4) The course pace is set by the instructor
				  and does not allow for independent completion of the course by
				  students.