Beginning July 26, 2010, The Illinois Department of Insurance will implement the State-Based Systems (SBS) licensing system. SBS provides anytime, anywhere access to producer licensing information and eliminates mail, telephone and email delays. Producers will receive the following benefits from the Department’s SBS conversion:

  • “Resident licensing original and renewal applications, non-resident original and renewal applications, address change requests and the attachment warehouse will be available to producers and other licensed entities on-line, all day, every day.
  • Temporary licenses will be processed online.
  • Approved license transactions will be loaded to SBS and viewable by the licensee online within minutes.
  • Licensees and licensing administrators will have fingertip access to electronically available information, including license printing, review of continuing education (CE) transcripts, and review of any portion of the licensee summary. Licensees can also receive automatic email notifications from the Department, thus avoiding U.S. postal mailing expenses.
  • The public will have free online access to information describing the status of a producer’s license.
  • Licensees will no longer have to use a Social Security number as a license identification number for CE courses, online log-ins, and course lists. Instead, they will use their National Producer Number.
  • CE course review features will be available online so that producers are able to search for course availability.”

During SBS implementation, electronic and paper license applications and renewals will be temporarily unavailable. “Electronic functionality will be unavailable beginning July 16, 2010, and will resume normal operations on July 26, 2010.”

The SBS transition will improve Illinois licensee services and create uniformity amongst the 20 other states that already use SBS for insurance regulation.

For more information, visit http://www.statebasedsystems.com/.

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Source: Illinois Department of Insurance