(a) An employee of an organization that has been issued a credit insurance agent license pursuant to this article may be an endorsee on the license if all of the following conditions have been met:

(1) The employee is 18 years of age or older.

(2) The employee submits an application to the department that includes a signed affidavit, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, stating the applicant has read the credit insurance training material submitted to the commissioner and that the applicant has received from the organization training in, and is knowledgeable about, the credit insurance products to be sold, ethics, and market practices.

(3) The employee submits an application fee, and each year thereafter, a renewal fee, in an amount or amounts determined by the department as sufficient to defray the department’s actual costs of processing the application or renewal and implementing this article.

(b) Prior to allowing any endorsee to offer or sell credit-related insurance, the licensed organization shall provide training to each endorsee about the credit insurance products to be sold, and shall submit annually to the department the names of endorsees and a statement of compliance with this article. Training materials used by the organization to train endorsees shall be submitted to the department at the time the organization applies for its credit insurance agent license, and each year thereafter when that license is renewed. Any changes to previously submitted training materials shall be submitted to the department with the changes highlighted 30 days prior to their use by the licensee. Training materials and changes to those materials submitted to the department pursuant to this subdivision shall be deemed approved for use by the company unless it is notified by the department to the contrary. Failure by a credit insurance licensee to submit training materials or changes for departmental review or use of unapproved or disapproved training materials shall constitute grounds for denial of an application for a license, nonrenewal of a license, or suspension of a license, as appropriate.

(c) The credit insurance agent shall periodically retrain its endorsees.

(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 321, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2001. Operative January 1, 2002, by Sec. 9 of Ch. 321.)