The District of Columbia Personal Lines license

D.C. Code 31-1131.05(a) asks a resident individual applying for a producer license to pass a written examination unless the application is for a limited lines license or the surplus lines line, or the applicant is exempt under 31-1131.05b or 31-1131.09. 31-1131.06(a) is what the Commissioner must find before approving it: at least 18 years old, no act that is a ground for denial under 31-1131.12, a pre-licensing course of study "if required by the Commissioner", the fees paid, and the examinations passed unless exempt. The District and Massachusetts are the two jurisdictions here where the course was handed to the regulator rather than written into the law or struck out of it: 31-1131.05a(a) gives the Commissioner power to require one by rule of every applicant except a title insurance producer, and the District has no title line because entry (7) was repealed. No such rule has been made, and the Department's own list of what a resident applicant must do carries no course. And there is no Personal Lines paper to sit. Pearson VUE's candidate handbook lists the six examinations the District gives, Life, Health, Property, Casualty, Title and Public Adjuster, and DISB's own annual passing-rate report names the same six; neither carries a Personal Lines row. So the examination this route requires is satisfied by papers named for other lines, and at $75 each the cost of it depends on how many, which is why the fee on this page is a floor. A missing paper is evidence about how a line is examined rather than about whether the line exists: the District does issue this license, at 31-1131.07(a)(6).

Read at pearsonvue.com on 2026-08-20

D.C. Code 31-1131.09(a), and it is the whole of the District's exemption section. Somebody currently licensed for the same line of authority in another state, or applying within 90 days of that license's cancellation with good standing certified by the other state or shown in the NAIC producer database, completes neither prelicensing education nor an examination. Note what is not here: section 31-1131.09 stops at reciprocity and writes no duty on a producer who moves in to apply within 90 days, and its subsections (b) through (e) are all repealed. Counting every route on this site whose kind is residency_transfer, fourteen jurisdictions carry none: Alaska, California, the District, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Read at code.dccouncil.gov on 2026-08-16