• Effective January 1, 2011, Ohio resident insurance agent licensees will be required to complete a minimum of 24 hours of CE every 2 years including 3 hours of Ethics training.
• CE Due Dates are at the End of Agents' Birth Month
• Requirements for Agents who hold a Property, Casualty, Personal Lines, Accident & Health or Life License:  Persons holding one or more of the above lines of authority are required to complete 24 hours of approved continuing education, 3 of which must be approved as ethics specific, prior to renewing their license.

• The following classes of agents are exempt from continuing education requirements:

  • Persons holding a limited authority license
  • Non-resident agents in compliance with the continuing education requirements of their home state
  • Persons granted inactive status by the State Director of Insurance
• Exams are non-monitored with Affidavit of Personal Responsibility form completed and signed by the student.  Each course exam has 10 questions for every hour the course is approved, as per OH-Insurance Dept., new regulations and these are in the Multiple-Choice Exam Style Questions (i.e. if the course is approved for 7 hours, then the course exam is 70 questions long)
• Courses are Intermediate Level.
• Courses are repeatable every renewal cycle.
• Ohio CE Carry Over - Effective February 1, 2016, Ohio has amended insurance Rule 3901-5-01(agent continuing education) to allow the carry-over of excess continuing education (CE) credits to the next renewal period. Up to 50% credit hours, which will amount to General CE credits.
• Course provider is responsible for reporting course completion to Sircon with $1/credit processing fee. 
• A $100 late renewal fee will be assessed to all agents who fail to renew by their license expiration date, but submit a renewal application during the one month grace period .
• A $300.00 late renewal fee will be assessed to all agents who submit a renewal application within 11 months of their license being suspended

* To take final exam online

• After completing and submitting exam online, a downloadable version of the Affidavit of Personal Responsibility form must be printed out from the computer which the exam was taken and signed.
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• After Affidavit has been filled out and signed, please fax to 619-222-8593
• Upon receipt of the Affidavit, you will be given access to print out the certificate of completion for the course that was succesfully completed.                               
• Credits for completion for the course will be submitted by roster via email to appropriate state insurance department or credit processing firm.