Department of Labor and Regulation
Department of Labor and Regulation, Cosmetology Commission
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1 20:42:03:06.01. Applicant for licensure by reciprocity allowed credit for work
experience. An applicant for licensure by reciprocity may be allowed credit for work experience
as follows:
(1) Cosmetologist license: a maximum of 750 seven hundred fifty hours of the school
education hours required in § 20:42:06:09 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of
work experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work
experience more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a
commission-approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for
the work experience;
(2) Nail technician license: a maximum of 200 two hundred hours of the school education
hours required in § 20:42:06:09.01 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work
experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience
more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-
approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work
experience; and
(3) Esthetician license: a maximum of 300 three hundred hours of the school education
hours required in § 20:42:06:09.02 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work
experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience
more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-
approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work
experience.
If the applicant holds a cosmetology-related license that is not equivalent to a cosmetology,
nail technology, or esthetics license in this state, the commission may allow credit for relevant 2 work experience to apply toward the hours of education in the same manner as provided in this
section for the applicable license sought by the applicant.
Source: 9 SDR 96, effective January 30, 1983; 12 SDR 151, 12 SDR 155, effective July 1,
1986; 14 SDR 64, effective November 2, 1987; 24 SDR 2, effective July 23, 1997; 28 SDR 24,
effective August 28, 2001; 29 SDR 176, effective July 1, 2003; 31 SDR 62, effective November
4, 2004; 39 SDR 129, effective January 28, 2013; 47 SDR 8, effective August 3, 2020.
General Authority: SDCL 36-15-13(14).
Law Implemented: SDCL 36-15-19.2.
experience. An applicant for licensure by reciprocity may be allowed credit for work experience
as follows:
(1) Cosmetologist license: a maximum of
education hours required in § 20:42:06:09 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of
work experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work
experience more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a
commission-approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for
the work experience;
(2) Nail technician license: a maximum of
hours required in § 20:42:06:09.01 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work
experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience
more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-
approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work
experience; and
(3) Esthetician license: a maximum of
hours required in § 20:42:06:09.02 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work
experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience
more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-
approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work
experience.
If the applicant holds a cosmetology-related license that is not equivalent to a cosmetology,
nail technology, or esthetics license in this state, the commission may allow credit for relevant 2 work experience to apply toward the hours of education in the same manner as provided in this
section for the applicable license sought by the applicant.
Source: 9 SDR 96, effective January 30, 1983; 12 SDR 151, 12 SDR 155, effective July 1,
1986; 14 SDR 64, effective November 2, 1987; 24 SDR 2, effective July 23, 1997; 28 SDR 24,
effective August 28, 2001; 29 SDR 176, effective July 1, 2003; 31 SDR 62, effective November
4, 2004; 39 SDR 129, effective January 28, 2013; 47 SDR 8, effective August 3, 2020.
General Authority: SDCL 36-15-13(14).
Law Implemented: SDCL 36-15-19.2.
Extracted from the agency's filing on rules.sd.gov ↗. Formatting is approximate; the PDF on the state portal is authoritative.