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2021 SESSION
21102622DBe 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 "registered
surgical technologist" 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
registered with is certified by
the Board.
B. The Board shall register certify as a registered 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 technologist training program 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 at any time in the six months
prior to July 1, 2014 2021, provided he registers
with the Board by December 31, 2016 2021.