New Fingerprint Fees Effective May 1, 2018, the fingerprint rolling fee will increase from $9.30 to $10 per set of fingerprint impressions. The total processing fee for resident applicants to submit fingerprints taken at CDI’s Los Angeles examination site and for non-resident applicants to submit their fingerprints using fingerprint cards will increase from $58.30 to $59. The fee breakdown includes the FBI processing fee of $17, DOJ processing fee of $32 and Accurate Biometrics’ fingerprint rolling fee of $10. Please note that this fee increase does not affect the fingerprint rolling fees at PSI Services, CDI’s contracted examination vendor. Additional information regarding the fingerprint process can be found on CDI’s website at www.insurance.ca.gov, select Agents & Brokers, Applying for a License, Individual Resident License, and Obtaining Fingerprint Impressions. For non-resident fingerprint requirements, select Individual Non-Resident License and Non-Resident Fingerprint Requirements.

Questions For specific questions regarding this Notice, please email the Producer Licensing Bureau or call CDI's Licensing Hotline at (800) 967-9331. Please be sure to include your name, telephone number, application identification number or insurance license number and e-mail address in all correspondence with the CDI. Producer Licensing (800) 967-9331

Background All California resident insurance producers, adjusters, and bail agent applicants are required to submit fingerprint impressions for a complete background check through the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) before the California Department of Insurance (CDI) can complete its application processing. In addition, non-resident insurance producers and adjusters applicants who were not previously fingerprinted as a condition of obtaining an insurance producer license in their resident state must submit fingerprint impressions for the complete background check stated above. CDI’s contract with its current fingerprint vendor expires April 30, 2018 and cannot be renewed or extended, which required CDI to complete the competitive bid process for a new vendor. Through the competitive bid process CDI was able to select the fingerprint vendor that met CDI’s specifications for qualifications, achievements, timeliness, responsiveness and the fingerprint rolling fee. CDI received several responses and selected Accurate Biometrics, CDI’s current fingerprint vendor.

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Effective November 13, 2012 the California Department of Insurance (CDI) now requires California resident applicants to first pass the qualifying license examination prior to submitting their license application. For more information click HERE.

Background

Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 2884 (Chapter 304, Statutes of 2016) on September 12, 2016 and it becomes effective January 1, 2017. Among the provisions of AB 2884 is an amendment to Section 1682 of the California Insurance Code (CIC) setting statutory limits on the number of times individuals are allowed to take an insurance license exam in a 12-month period.

Statutory Limits

Effective January 1, 2017, any insurance license exam candidate that has failed an exam ten times within the previous 12-month period will be barred from taking the same exam for a period of 12 months, beginning from the date of the last failed exam. Exams that were taken and failed during Calendar Year 2016 will be counted towards the ten exam limit.

How to Calculate the Number of Exams Taken

The calculation for determining the number of exams taken is based on exam type. For instance, an exam candidate who is in the process of taking both the life-only exam and the personal lines exam would not have their exams combined but counted separately (e.g., the count for this exam candidate would be five times for the life-only exam and four times for the personal lines exam in the same12-month period. In this example, the exam candidate would not be counted as taking nine exams towards the ten exam limit).

However, combination exams which include one of the license types of a single exam taken in the same 12-month period are considered to be the same exam type when determining the number of exams taken. For instance, an exam candidate taking the life-only exam eight times and a combination life and accident/health exam two times in the same 12-month period will have reached the ten exam limit for taking any of CDI’s life agent exams, including life limited to funeral and burial expenses.

Questions

For specific questions regarding this notice, please e-mail the Producer Licensing Bureau at https://interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov/pli/servlet/InformationRequest or call CDI's Examination Section at (916) 492-3570. Please be sure to include your name, telephone number, license number and e-mail address in all correspondence with the CDI.

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