(a) The director may require that solicitors and solicitor firms, and principal persons engaged in the supervision of solicitation for plans of solicitor firms, meet such reasonable and appropriate standards with respect to training, experience, and other qualifications as the director finds necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of subscribers, enrollees, and plans. For such purposes, the director may do the following:
(1) Appropriately classify such persons and individuals.
(2) Specify that all or any portion of such standards shall be applicable to any such class.
(3) Require individuals in any such class to pass examinations prescribed in accordance with such rules.
(b) The director may prescribe by rule reasonable fees and charges to defray the costs of carrying out this section, including, but not limited to, fees for any examination administered by the director or under his or her direction.