(b) Effective January 1, 2011, continuing education will be due biennially under the following schedule:

1. (1)

   1. (A)

(i) For existing individual licensees born in odd-numbered years, a two-year license will be issued for the 2011 renewal on the licensee's birth date, and renewed biennially thereafter.

1. (ii) Twelve (12) hours of continuing education, which must include two (2) hours of ethics, must be completed prior to the licensee's renewal in 2011.

   1. (B) Beginning in 2013, the continuing education requirements of twenty-four (24) hours, which must include three (3) hours of ethics, will be due at each two-year license renewal cycle based on the licensee's birth date.
   2. (C) The first continuing education requirement of twenty-four (24) hours, which must include three (3) hours of ethics, is due by the expiration/renewal birth date in 2013 and at each subsequent two-year license renewal;

2. (2)

   1. (A)

      1. (i) For existing individual licensees born in even-numbered years, a one-year license will be issued for the 2011 renewal on the licensee's birth date.
      2. (ii) Resident producers and adjusters will be required to have twelve (12) hours of continuing education, which must include two (2) hours of ethics, due for license renewal in 2012.
   2. (B) Beginning in 2012, these licensees will renew their licenses for a two-year period and renew biennially on their birth date thereafter.
   3. (C) The continuing education requirement of twenty-four (24) hours, which must include three (3) hours of ethics, will be due at the first two-year license renewal cycle based on the licensee's birth date in 2014 and biennially on the birth date thereafter;

3. (3)

   1. (A) For new individual licensees issued in 2011 and subsequent years, license renewal periods will not be based on birth year.
   2. (B) The initial license will be issued for a two-year period and renewed biennially on the licensee's birth date thereafter.
   3. (C) The continuing education requirements of twenty-four (24) hours, which must include three (3) hours of ethics, will be due at each two-year license renewal cycle; and

4. (4)

   1. (A) The continuing education requirements for resident adjusters and for those nonresidents who have qualified for an Arkansas adjuster license by taking the Arkansas adjuster exam will be twenty-four (24) hours every two (2) years of which three (3) hours must be ethics.

   2. (B)

      1. (i) The requirement for adjusters to complete continuing education on or before their birthday will start January 1, 2012.
      2. (ii) Nonresidents who have qualified by being licensed as an adjuster in their home state are exempt from continuing education requirements.