This chapter applies to an individual licensed resident or nonresident insurance producer who seeks to renew a license under Insurance Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, but does not apply to an individual holding the type of license described in Insurance Article, §10-116(b), Annotated Code of Maryland. The following types of courses are not considered to be continuing education courses and are outside the scope of this chapter: A course that is designed for preparing an applicant for the examination given to obtain an initial license as an insurance producer; and A course designed to prepare a person for an examination in a kind or subdivision of insurance that the insurance producer seeks to add to the insurance producer's existing license.