Arkansas Insurance Producer CE Requirements, Explained

The base requirement: 24 hours, 3 of them ethics

Resident producers complete 24 hours of approved continuing education every two-year term, of which at least 3 hours must be ethics. The remaining 21 hours must be approved for the line(s) of insurance you are licensed to sell. The ethics hours count within the 24, not on top of it.

Carryover, repeats, and the ethics catch

• Ethics (and any specialty training) must be completed during every renewal period - carried-over hours cannot satisfy these specific requirements.
• Excess ethics or specialty hours can carry forward, but only as general credits in the next period.
• You may not repeat a course for credit more than once in a two-year period - completion dates must be at least 24 months apart.
• The 3 ethics hours are easy to under-plan precisely because surplus from last cycle will not count this cycle.

When is your deadline?

Your CE must be completed on or before your date of birth, every two years. Because the requirement is tied to your actual birthday rather than a fixed calendar date, your deadline is personal - and the ethics-every-period rule means there is no shortcut around finishing a fresh 3 ethics hours before that day each cycle.

How CredTally keeps this on autopilot

• Track 24 hours with a dedicated 3-hour ethics bucket - the dashboard shows each requirement separately, so the every-period ethics rule cannot slip past.
• Multi-state producers: every license gets its own card, deadline, and reminders, so Arkansas's birthday-based cycle never collides with another state's clock.
• Store every certificate with the course it proves, so Department reviews and carryover claims are a download, not a hunt.
• Reminders at 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before your birthday deadline, with your remaining hours front and center.
• Export a dated PDF packet - summary plus every certificate - for an audit or carrier review in one click.

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