The Texas Managing General Agent license
Managing General Agent
Acts for an insurer in Texas with authority over underwriting and, in some arrangements, over claims. It is one of the three licenses that can stand underneath a Texas surplus lines license.
Course
None
This license has no pre-licensing course route.
Ways in
3
2 of them skip the state exam.
Exam
Not confirmed
Required on some routes and not others.
Every way to qualify
More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. There is no pre-licensing course among them: this license is qualified for by sitting the examination, a license held in another state or a license already held.
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Route 1 Pass the examination
State exam required
TDI's page starts at the examination and asks for no pre-licensing course. No designation waiver is offered.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-17
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Route 2 Hold the same license in a reciprocal state
Exempt from the state exam
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a managing general agent license in good standing in a reciprocal state
TDI's page waives the examination for a non-resident who holds the license in good standing in a reciprocal state. It is a waiver of the examination and not of the application: the fee, the fingerprints and the Sircon filing all stand.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-17
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Route 3 Reinstate a license that expired between 90 days and a year ago
Exempt from the state exam
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a Texas managing general agent license that expired more than 90 days and less than one year ago
TDI lists an expired license among the reasons no examination is needed, and it is bounded at both ends: inside the first 90 days the renewal process is used instead, and after a year the examination comes back. So this route begins where renewal stops.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-17
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The Texas Department of Insurance requires no pre-licensing course for this license, so there is nothing here to price. Anyone selling you one is selling exam practice.