Kansas
Verified Nov 8, 2026 · Source: Candidate Handbook, July 2026
- Testing vendor
- Pearson VUE
- Testing format
- Test centers are listed. Remote availability is needs confirmation on the current program page; check 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$57License application basis: $10 (current DOI 2026 notice and NIPR) · Source
- Accident & Health$57License application basis: $10 (current DOI 2026 notice and NIPR) · Source
- Combined Life and Accident & Health$64License application basis: $10 (current DOI 2026 notice and NIPR) · 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$10 (current DOI 2026 notice and NIPR)Official 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 Kansas 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
Apply through NIPR after passing and complete the state’s remaining licensing requirements.
Source differences & fee cautions
- Application · Fee detailsUse $10: a dated, year-specific DOI fee notice and current NIPR agree; reject the stale $30 handbook application paragraph. Exam fees remain $57/$64.
- Variable authority classification · Fee detailsDescribe underlying Life examination and securities qualifications, not an invented extra variable exam. Pre-Need uses Life $57.
Fingerprinting & background checks
- Requirement
- Required, subject to listed exemptions
- State instructions
- Resident producer applicants must be fingerprinted for state/national criminal history checks and submit the Waiver Agreement & FBI Privacy Act Statement.
- Vendor / contact
- Pearson VUE digital capture or local fingerprint-card provider; Kansas DOI processing · Kansas Department of Insurance
- Separate cost
- $60 background/fingerprint fee through NIPR, plus $20 Pearson digital collection appointment
When to fingerprint, fee details & official sources
- When in the process
- Fingerprints valid 365 days awaiting application, waiver and fees; may apply before exam or after passing; background/consent required before issuance.
- Fee / route notes
- Pearson option totals $80 (calculated). Select OTHER → Fingerprint KSINSFP: KS INS Fingerprint Appointment. Local paper-card providers may charge different collection fees.
Additional life-related, restricted & specialty license types (4)
These are not shortcuts to unrestricted Life & Health authority. Appointment, securities, employer, tenure and exemption conditions can apply.
Insurance Producer — Variable Life and Variable Annuities
- Examination
- Underlying Life qualification plus securities registration; no standalone variable exam listed
- Exam fee
- Underlying Life exam — see Life option; check securities-registration costs separately
- Application
- Application $10
An existing Life license or a simultaneous Life application and the state’s FINRA/CRD requirements apply. The NIPR exam-required group is not treated as a new standalone variable examination.
Insurance Producer — Pre-Need
- Examination
- Life examination (DOI explicitly requires it for Pre-Need Only)
- Exam fee
- $57
- Application
- Application $10
DOI producer-examinations page confirms Pre-Need uses the Life exam; curl blocks the page but WebFetch returned the official text.
Insurance Producer — Credit
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- Application $10
Viatical Broker — Viatical Broker (specialty)
Confirm with the state- Examination
- Exact specialty examination / exemption: confirm with the state
- Exam fee
- See official page
- Application
- $50
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
- $40
- A&H-only state application
- $40
- Life + A&H in the same application
- $40
- 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.
Initial application fee. Separate reinstatement/reapplication penalties are not initial fees.
Fingerprinting & background
- Requirement
- Not required on the qualifying reciprocal pathway — see official scope and exceptions
- State instructions
- No routine additional fingerprint submission on the qualifying reciprocal pathway. K.S.A. §40-4914(a) expressly waives license-application requirements for a valid, current reciprocal home-state license, subject to §40-4908 denial grounds. §40-4906 supplies nonresident eligibility; §40-4905(h) scopes mandatory prints to residents. The enumerated nonresident conditions impose no routine fingerprint submission. This conclusion rests on the EXPRESS waiver, not merely silence in a checklist. Separate disciplinary/1033 consent review is outside this ordinary pathway.
Continuing education and other notes
Maintain same lines in home state; company certification/appointment required for each insurer for which business is transacted. Home-state CE reciprocity applies. NIPR $40 initial fee is separate from penalties or optional training charges.
Non-resident license types
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life
- Fee
- $40
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $40
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life, Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $40
Both authorities on one application, not necessarily a distinct combined license class.
General non-resident rules
- Valid active resident home-state producer license in good standing; reciprocal home-state licensingK.S.A. §40-4914(a) expressly waives license-application requirements for a valid, current reciprocal home-state license, subject to §40-4908 denial grounds. §40-4906 supplies nonresident eligibility; §40-4905(h) scopes mandatory prints to residents. Ordinary reciprocal licensing requires no additional target-state exam; maintain the matching home-state authority.