Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the board may issue a license as a professional counselor or professional counselor–mental health to an applicant who is licensed to practice counseling in another state or territory of the United States if the applicant demonstrates that:

(1) The applicant is currently licensed as a counselor and has been under the jurisdiction of the licensing authority in the other jurisdiction for at least three continuous years prior to the time of submitting an application to the board;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 36-32-67

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(2) The applicant is in good standing with the licensing authority in the other jurisdiction;

(3) The applicant has been in an active practice during the three-year period before the time of submitting an application to the board;

(4) The applicant passed the standard national examination approved by the board for the specific license; and

(5) The applicant has no record of unprofessional conduct or any pending disciplinary complaints in the other jurisdiction.

For purposes of this section, the term, active practice, means the applicant accumulated at least one thousand five hundred hours of clinical experience.

Source: SL 2020, ch 165, § 21.

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