Filed as: South Dakota Board of Funeral Services
The Board of Funeral Services has clarified and tightened its trainee program by requiring trainees to be enrolled in or have completed an accredited mortuary science program (removing the old high school education alternative), establishing that trainees must complete their one-year training within three years and apply for a license within five years of finishing, and adding new supervision rules that sponsors must be physically present for the first five embalming cases before allowing remote supervision. The board also updated its definition of who can sponsor a trainee—now requiring five consecutive years of licensure with no discipline in the past five years—and increased licensing fees for funeral directors and funeral establishments (application and renewal fees each rising by $100), while clarifying that funeral service licensees cannot employ unregistered or formerly-registered trainees as workers.
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Clarifies trainee program requirements and supervision requirements and updates licensure fees for funeral service licensees and funeral establishments.
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