(1) A health care facility shall not employ or otherwise
contract for the services of a surgical technologist in a
health care facility unless the individual meets at least one
of the following:
(i) has successfully completed a program accredited
by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health
Education Programs or other nationally accredited
educational program for surgical technologists and holds
and maintains the Certified Surgical Technologist
credential administered by the National Board of Surgical
Technology and Surgical Assisting or its successor;
(ii) has successfully completed an appropriate
training program for surgical technology in the United
States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard
or in the United States Public Health Service;
(iii) provides evidence that the individual was
employed to practice surgical technology in a health care
facility on the effective date of this act or was
employed to practice surgical technology during the two
years immediately preceding the effective date of this
act; or
(iv) is in the service of the Federal Government, to
the extent that the individual is performing duties
related to that service.
(2) A health care facility may employ or contract an
individual to practice surgical technology during the 12-
month period immediately following successful completion of a
surgical technology program, but may not continue to be
employed or contracted with beyond that period without
documentation that the employee or contractor holds and
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