(1) Unless waived by the commissioner under WAC 284-17-515, as a prerequisite to admission to the examination, an applicant for a resident insurance producer license for personal lines, life, disability, property or casualty line of authority must complete twenty hours of prelicensing insurance education for each major line of authority for which the applicant will be tested. Each course must include training on Washington insurance laws and rules applicable to that line of authority and general insurance laws and rules.

(2) The prescribed curriculum for each line of authority to be tested and the related insurance laws and rules, must be successfully completed within the twelve-month period immediately preceding the examination.