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| Bill | Registered surgical technologist; criteria for registration. | Certified surgical technologist; criteria for certification. Requires the Board of Medicine to certify as a surgical technologist any applicant who has practiced as a surgical technologist or attended a surgical technologist training program at any time prior to October 1, 2022, and registers with the Board by December 31, 2022. Under current law, an applicant who practiced as a surgical technologist at any time in the six months prior to July 1, 2021, and registered by December 31, 2021, is eligible for certification by the Board. The bill also provides that 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. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 598 | Virginia HB 598 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 598 (2022) — Registered surgical technologist; criteria for registration.
Certified surgical technologist; criteria for certification. Requires the Board of Medicine to certify as a surgical technologist any applicant who has practiced as a surgical technologist or attended a surgical technologist training program at any time prior to October 1, 2022, and registers with the Board by December 31, 2022. Under current law, an applicant who practiced as a surgical technologist at any time in the six months prior to July 1, 2021, and registered by December 31, 2021, is eligible for certification by the Board. The bill also provides that 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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0071 (committee substitute) — source
- HB598ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103959D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103959D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2022-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB598)
- 2022-01-21 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-01 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-04 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2022-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-02-17 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-21 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-21 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-23 Enrolled
- 2022-02-23 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-02-23 Signed by President
- 2022-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB598ER)
- 2022-03-09 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- 2022-03-09 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-01 Approved by Governor-Chapter 71 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e4678ab-6cd4-487f-837f-f6f86c6f07fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).