Hawaii
Verified Nov 8, 2026 · Source: Candidate Handbook, January 2026
- Testing vendor
- Pearson VUE
- Testing format
- Available — the official program links to OnVUE online testing. Confirm that your exam is eligible before booking.
- Before registering
- Review the resident-producer eligibility and any education or approval requirements on the official state licensing page before booking.
Exam options & fees
- Life Producer$75License application basis: $150 · Source
- Accident & Health and Sickness$75License application basis: $150 · Source
License application amounts are not a new charge for every exam component. Separate examinations, combined examinations and discounted sessions are labeled above.
Other licensing costs
- License application — standard Life / Health route$150Official source
- NIPR transaction — only if applying through NIPR$5.60 per applicationOfficial source
- Other vendor / processing chargesCheck the official page for any additional processing chargesOfficial source
- Fingerprinting / backgroundFingerprinting costs are listed below. Some states collect them with your application; any included charge is not an additional fee.
Go directly to the official source
Location and remote availability depend on examination eligibility, date and vendor rules.
Register for the Hawaii insurance agent exam
- Review the resident-producer eligibility and any education or approval requirements on the official state licensing page before booking.
- Open the official testing program; create an account using the legal name on your identification.
- Choose the correct examination and permitted testing format, select an appointment, and pay the official examination fee.
- Keep the confirmation. Review the handbook’s exact name-match, photo ID, certificate, check-in, cancellation and retake requirements.
After passing
Follow the Hawaii Insurance Division’s resident-producer application instructions after passing.
Fingerprinting & background checks
- Requirement
- Required, subject to listed exemptions
- State instructions
- All resident individuals seeking initial insurance licenses must get fingerprinted (TPA exception does not apply to a producer).
- Vendor / contact
- Fieldprint · Hawaii DCCA Insurance Division
- Separate cost
- $8.95 fingerprint service fee PLUS additional state and/or federal submission fees; insurance-program total unverified
When to fingerprint, fee details & official sources
- When in the process
- Pass examination, get fingerprinted, then submit complete application/fee within 60 days of fingerprinting.
- Fee / route notes
- Fieldprint Hawaii lists an $8.95 service fee plus state and federal charges for insurance code HI-DCCA-INS. Confirm the insurance-program total before paying. The generic $50 FBI report and $35/$55 state-only checks are different services.
Additional life-related, restricted & specialty license types (3)
These are not shortcuts to unrestricted Life & Health authority. Appointment, securities, employer, tenure and exemption conditions can apply.
Insurance Producer — Variable Life & Variable Annuity
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $150
Limited Lines Producer — Credit
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $150
Life Settlement Broker — Life Settlement Broker (specialty)
Confirm with the state- Examination
- Exact specialty examination / exemption: confirm with the state
- Exam fee
- See official page
- Application
- $375
Specialty settlement brokerage is not the standard Life insurance agent license. Underlying Life-license tenure, registration exemptions and other eligibility rules may apply; confirm before paying.
Non-resident licensing summary
Already licensed in another state? Qualifying matching Life / A&H authority usually does not require a new target-state exam. Home-state-dependent fees, fingerprint exemptions and other conditions differ from the resident path. Confirm your final eligibility and payment total on the official application.
Non-resident state fees
- Life-only state application
- $225
- A&H-only state application
- $225
- Life + A&H in the same application
- $225
- NIPR transaction — separate, only for NIPR applications
- $5.60 general initial-application transaction fee; confirm the final charge for your selected state and application with NIPR before paying.
Per Insurance Producer application; no fee for adding a line to an existing license.
Fingerprinting & background
- Requirement
- Not required on the qualifying reciprocal pathway — see official scope and exceptions
- State instructions
- Hawaii initial fingerprint checklist explicitly begins All resident individuals; not applied to ordinary reciprocal nonresident producers.
Continuing education and other notes
Home-state continuing education satisfies Hawaii’s reciprocal requirements. An insurer appointment is required before acting as its agent, but not with the initial application. Non-resident fingerprint rules differ from the resident checklist.
Non-resident license types
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life
- Fee
- $225
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $225
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life, Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $225
Both authorities on one application, not necessarily a distinct combined license class.