Bill Text: VA HB598 | 2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Registered surgical technologist; criteria for registration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-04-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) [HB598 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-HB598-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §54.1-2956.12 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§54.1-2956.12. Registered surgical technologist; use of title; registration.
A. No person shall hold himself out to be a surgical
technologist or use or assume the title of "surgical technologist" or
"certified surgical technologist," or use the designation
"C.S.T." or "S.T." or any variation thereof, unless
such person is certified by the Board. No person shall use the designation
"C.S.T." or any variation thereof unless such person (i) is certified
by the Board and (ii) has successfully completed an accredited surgical
technologist training program and holds a current credential as a certified
surgical technologist from the National Board of Surgical Technology and
Surgical Assisting or its successor.
B. The Board shall certify as a surgical technologist any
applicant who presents satisfactory evidence that he (i) has successfully
completed an accredited surgical technologist training program and holds a
current credential as a certified surgical technologist from the National Board
of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting or its successor, (ii) has
successfully completed a training program for surgical technology during the
person's service as a member of any branch of the armed forces of the United
States, or (iii) has practiced as a surgical technologist or attended a
surgical technologist training program at any time in the six months
prior to July 1, 2021 October 1, 2022, provided he registers with
the Board by December 31, 2021 2022.
