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The South Dakota Third Party Administrator license

Third Party Administrator

Handles somebody else's premiums or claims on a life or health plan. South Dakota is one of the few states that issues this two ways, as a license or as a registration, with a separate application checklist for each.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply for the license or the registration

    No state exam for this license

    The instrument

    • South Dakota runs two tracks and publishes a separate application requirement checklist for each: a Third Party Administrator license and a Third Party Administrator registration, with their own renewal checklists. The Division's Other License Types page carries all four documents.

    and the qualification

    • SDCL chapter 58-29D, Regulation of Life and Health Administrators. There is no examination and no pre-licensing course; the qualification is corporate, financial and contractual.

    SDCL chapter 58-29D. The two-track structure is the thing worth knowing: an administrator that qualifies for the lighter treatment registers, and the rest are licensed, and the Division's checklists are where the difference is set out for an applicant. Nothing about either is examined.

    Read at sdlegislature.gov on 2026-08-20

No national seller sells a course for this license. Aceable does not sell South Dakota at all. There is no examination and no course, on either the license track or the registration track. The qualification is corporate and financial.