(1) A person may not sell, solicit, or negotiate supplemental long-term care insurance unless the person is appropriately licensed as an insurance producer and has successfully completed supplemental long-term care coverage education that meets the requirements of this section and:
(a) Has successfully completed long-term care coverage education that meets the requirements of RCW 48.83.130; and
(b) Has completed an approved one-hour course on supplemental long-term care insurance that includes education on:
(i) The provisions of chapter 50B.04 RCW and any rules adopted to implement the long-term services and supports trust program;
(ii) The relationship between benefits offered under chapter 50B.04 RCW, qualified state long-term care insurance partnership programs, and other public and private coverage of long-term care services, including medicaid; and
(iii) This chapter.
(2) The insurance producer education required by this section may not include training that is issuer or company product-specific or that includes any sales or marketing information, materials, or training, other than those required by state or federal law.
(3) Issuers must obtain verification that an insurance producer receives training required by this section before that producer is permitted to sell, solicit, or otherwise negotiate the issuer's supplemental long-term care insurance products.
(4) Issuers must maintain records subject to the state's record retention requirements and make evidence of that verification available to the commissioner upon request.
(5)(a) Issuers must maintain records with respect to the training of its producers concerning the distribution of its long-term care partnership policies that will allow the commissioner to provide assurance to the state department of social and health services, medicaid division, that insurance producers engaged in the sale of supplemental long-term care insurance contracts have received the training required by this section and any rules adopted by the commissioner, and that producers have demonstrated an understanding of the partnership policies and their relationship to benefits offered under chapter 50B.04 RCW and public and private coverage of long-term care, including medicaid, in this state.
(b) These records must be maintained in accordance with the state's record retention requirements and be made available to the commissioner upon request.
[ 2025 c 380 s 33.]
Notes:
Effective date—2025 c 380 ss 17-39, 47, and 48: See note following RCW 48.212.005.