HB1180

South Dakota currently prohibits children under 14 from working in factories, mines, and stores, but this bill clarifies and modifies those rules by allowing work in commercial establishments only when school is not in session and pushing back the nightly cutoff from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The bill also removes the specific prohibition on factory and workshop employment, instead applying a general restriction to all mercantile commercial work. Violating these child labor rules remains a Class 2 misdemeanor.