The Connecticut Personal Lines license

Conn. Gen. Stat. section 38a-702e(e)(1): a course approved by the commissioner of not less than twenty hours for each line applied for, proved to the commissioner before the applicant is admitted to the examination. The figure was forty until Public Act 21-137 cut it to twenty, which is why older writing about Connecticut says forty.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. section 38a-702e(e)(2) puts this beside the course as the other way to be admitted to the examination, in six words: "equivalent experience or training as determined by the commissioner". It fixes no period, names no kind of work and points at no form, so what counts is whatever the commissioner accepts. It is recorded because it is a way in that the Department's own pages do not mention, and it is shown with no figure because the statute carries none. Connecticut puts every one of these in the commissioner's hands rather than in a form: the statute says the applicant has to prove the ground to the commissioner's satisfaction, or that the commissioner may waive, so none of them is automatic.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. section 38a-702h(a), and it reaches both halves: "shall not be required to complete any prelicensing education or examination". The ninety days run from the cancellation of the previous license rather than from a move, and the good standing has to be certified by the prior state or visible in the NAIC's producer database.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. section 38a-702h(b). Neither prelicensing education nor an examination is required for a line the applicant already held, and the ninety days run from establishing residence rather than from the old license ending. The subsection reserves the commissioner's power to say otherwise by regulation.

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The Department waives the pre-licensing course for the Personal Lines line on any one of these designations, and it publishes the list twice, on its own producer page and in the examination vendor's candidate handbook. It is wider than the examination waiver and it is not the same list: the course goes on 4 designations and the paper goes on one, CPCU. Neither is automatic. The applicant emails cid.licensing@ct.gov a letter from the professional society dated within the last ninety days, quoting the Department's application number or the national registry transaction number, and asks for it, with "Producer Pre-Licensing Waiver" in the subject line. Somebody who has the waiver rather than a certificate brings the letter to the test center in place of one, because the vendor turns away a candidate for this paper who has neither.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. section 38a-702h(c) lets the commissioner waive the examination for property and casualty insurance for an applicant awarded the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter. It is the examination alone: the subsection says nothing about the course, and section 38a-702e(a)(3) leaves the course to the commissioner, so the twenty hours are shown here as still owed. That is the harder outcome of the two readings and the one to plan for. Connecticut puts every one of these in the commissioner's hands rather than in a form: the statute says the applicant has to prove the ground to the commissioner's satisfaction, or that the commissioner may waive, so none of them is automatic.

Read at cga.ct.gov on 2026-08-16