The Texas Temporary General Lines license
Temporary General Lines
One 180-day license, issued through the company considering the appointment, that lets an applicant work either general lines while sitting the examination. Its forty hours are employer training rather than a pre-licensing course anyone sells, and only one is ever issued to a person.
Course
40 hrs
The shortest single course route.
Ways in
1
It requires the state exam.
Exam
Not confirmed
Required.
Every way to qualify
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Route 1 Take the 40-hour course
State exam required
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40 hours of pre-licensing education for a temporary general lines license, on either the life, accident, health and HMO side or the property and casualty side. 10 of those hours cannot be taken at your own pace, so a fully self-paced online course does not satisfy this on its own. The route's own note says which live formats the state accepts
Tex. Ins. Code section 4001.151 lets the Department issue the temporary license to any applicant under section 4001.102, which is the general application section for an agent of an insurer or health maintenance organization, so one temporary license serves both general lines and the Department publishes the same one on its life and its property apply pages alike: 180 days, $150, one only, no renewal and no second application. Section 4001.160 then puts the training on the company rather than on the applicant: the agent, insurer or health maintenance organization considering the appointment "shall provide at least 40 hours of training", no later than the thirtieth day after the application, fee and certificate reach the Department. At least ten of the forty have to be taught in a classroom, and the statute says where: an accredited college, university, junior or community college, a business school, or a private institute or classes the appointing company sets up for the purpose. So the classroom half can be the employer's own room. Nothing here is for sale, which is why no product on this site is matched to it, and section 4001.161 explains the shape: the company has to get seventy percent of its temporary applicants to sit the licensing examination and half of those to pass it, so the training is the employer's compliance obligation rather than the candidate's purchase.
Read at statutes.capitol.texas.gov on 2026-09-05
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A course is required and nobody sells one
There is nothing for a school to sell. The forty hours are the appointing company's obligation under Tex. Ins. Code 4001.160(a) rather than the applicant's purchase, and at least ten of them are taught in the company's own classroom.