AB 451 expanded language access to the California licensing exam. Under Insurance Code §1677 as it now reads, the personal-lines broker-agent qualifying exam must be offered in which set of languages?
Explanation
Six, not five. AB 451 (Stats. 2023, ch. 136, effective January 1, 2024) amended Insurance Code §1677 to require the exam in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean, and the same section adds Tagalog as of July 1, 2024. Study material written before 2024 — including earlier editions of this guide — lists only the first five; verify the current list with CDI. (a) understates it, (b) names languages CDI uses elsewhere but which §1677 does not require, and (c) names none of them.
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