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HOUSE BILL NO. 2442 Offered January 21, 1999 A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-3513 of the Code of Virginia, relating to restriction of practice. ---------- Patron-- Cantor ---------- Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54.1-3513 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 54.1-3513. Restriction of practice; use of titles.

A. No person, other than a person licensed by the Boards of Medicine; Nursing; Optometry; Licensed Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Substance Abuse Treatment Professionals; Psychology; or Social Work, shall hold himself out as a provider of rehabilitation services or use the title "rehabilitation provider" or a similar title or any abbreviation thereof unless he holds a valid certificate under this article.

B. This section shall not apply to (i) employees or independent contractors of the Commonwealth‘s agencies and sheltered workshops providing vocational rehabilitation services, and (ii) persons certified to provide rehabilitation services prior to July 1, 1997, who have done so continuously since that date without interruption, provided such persons, employees or independent contractors are not providing vocational rehabilitation services under § 65.2-603.