---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8203"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "8203"
heading: "Participation in national producer database"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/8203"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — State-Based Insurance Reform"
  - "Subchapter I — Nonadmitted Insurance"
---

# §8203. Participation in national producer database


After the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on July 21, 2010, a [State](/usc/15/8206.md?p=16) may not collect any fees relating to licensing of an individual or entity as a [surplus lines broker](/usc/15/8206.md?p=15) in the [State](/usc/15/8206.md?p=16) unless the [State](/usc/15/8206.md?p=16) has in effect at such time laws or regulations that provide for participation by the [State](/usc/15/8206.md?p=16) in the national insurance producer database of the [NAIC](/usc/15/8206.md?p=8), or any other equivalent uniform national database, for the licensure of [surplus lines brokers](/usc/15/8206.md?p=15) and the renewal of such licenses.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–203, title V, § 523, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1590.)