HB 4178 Michigan House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Insurance: producers; continuing education credit carryover system for insurance producers who belong to a professional insurance association; provide for. Amends sec. 1204c of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.1204c).

House Bill 4178 amends the insurance code to establish a new system for continuing education credits for insurance producers. Specifically, it allows insurance producers who belong to a professional insurance association to carry over excess continuing education hours. This means if these producers complete more than the currently required 24 hours of approved education every two years, the additional credits can be applied toward future license renewal requirements. The bill modifies the existing rules governing how insurance producers maintain their licenses through ongoing education.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Governor
Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action May 13, 2025
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House Introduced Bill As Passed by the House · 9 edits · May 7, 2025
MAJOR
This bill amends Michigan's insurance code to update continuing education requirements for insurance producers, adding new course topics, extending the grace period for license renewal, and creating new provisions for professional association participation credits. The changes modernize the education system to include ethics, estate planning, and long-term care topics while providing flexibility for producers who meet certain professional association requirements.
Scope change
The bill applies to all insurance producers (life-health and property-casualty agents) renewing their licenses, with specific new provisions for producers who are members of professional insurance associations and those with limited license types.
REQUIREMENT

Added new required course topics including ethics in insurance, estate planning and taxation, long-term care insurance, and accounting/actuarial considerations for life-health agents.

Added new required course topics including property and casualty insurance principles, risk management, and casualty insurance contract provisions for property-casualty agents.

Added provisions allowing up to 12 carryover hours to the next 2-year period, but excluding ethics hours from carryover.

Created new credit system awarding 4 hours toward continuing education requirements for active participation in professional insurance associations after December 31, 2025.

Added new provisions for monitoring classroom instruction and stricter standards for approving insurance education instructors.

Added specific rules for producers selling their insurance businesses, including restrictions on soliciting new policies and partial commission rights.

Modified the definition of an 'hour' to mean not less than 50 minutes of instruction.

TIMELINE

Extended the grace period for meeting continuing education requirements from 30 days to 90 days before license cancellation.

ELIGIBILITY

Created new exemptions for producers licensed only for travel/baggage insurance or limited line credit insurance who are not primarily selling those products.

Floor votes · House May 7, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
3
Committee
4
May 13, 2025
Committee
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, INSURANCE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
upper
May 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
PASSED BY HOUSE WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
upper
May 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed; given immediate effect Roll Call #93 Yeas 108 Nays 1 Excused 0 Not Voting 1
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Committee
referred to second reading
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported with recommendation without amendment
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
referred to Committee on Insurance
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Introduced
introduced by Representative Rep. Joseph Aragona
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors

Sponsors