CHAPTER 209

(SB 51)

Board of Counselor Examiners
may limit number of exams per application.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  authorize the Board of Counselor Examiners to limit the number of times an examination may be taken before exhausting the original application.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That chapter 36-32 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:

     An applicant failing to pass the examination required for licensed professional counselor-mental health is entitled to a reexamination within six months upon payment of an additional fee to be

promulgated by the board pursuant to chapter 1-26. However, two such reexaminations exhaust the privilege under the original application.

     Signed March 7, 2003.

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