Chap. 18.—An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants
for the sick under certain conditions. {fH B 3]

Approved February 17, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Sec. 1. The State board of examiners of graduate nurses may,
in its discretion, authorize the establishment of centers of training
for attendants for the sick; provide for the admission of persons
applying for such training ; prescribe the kind and duration thereof,
the examination of persons completing the prescribed courses and
the licensing of such persons to do such kind of nursing, public and
private, and for the period of one year as such license may: designate.

Sec. 2. The license fee at the first issuance of said license shall
be two dollars and fifty cents, to be paid to the State board of ex-
aminers of graduate nurses.

This said license may be renewed by the board annually, without
any additional fee, and the board may revoke any license for cause
after notice to the holder thereof and opportunity to answer any
charges that may be preferred against such persons.

Sec. 3. The State board of examiners of graduate nurses shall
have general supervision of the attendants licensed by it, and may
make reasonable rules and regulations for the conduct and employ-
ment of such attendants; provided, however, that said board of
examiners shall not have the power to prescribe the amount of com-
pensation to be charged by said licensed attendants.

Sec. 4. Any person who shall show to the satisfaction of the
board that he or she was engaged in the practice of the care of the
sick as an attendant undergraduate nurse, unregistered nurse or in
any capacity other than that of a licensed trained graduate or reg-
istered nurse at the time of the passage of this act may be granted
at the discretion of the said board a license as a licensed attendant
without passing an examination; provided application therefor shall
be made within six months after the passage of this act, and that
such application shall be accompanied by credentials of character
and extent of training or experience.

sec. 5. All persons who have duly received licenses in accordance
with the provisions of this act shall be known and styled as licensed
attendants, and it shall be unlawful after six months from the passage
of this act for any person to advertise as or to assume the title of
licensed attendant or to use the abbreviation of L.A., or any other
words, letters or figures to indicate that the person using the same is
a licensed attendant, and any person violating this provison of this
section of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and pun-
ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first
offense, and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent
offense.

Sec. 6. This act shall not be construed to affect existing laws in
relation to the examination, registration, and licensing of profes-
sional nurses.

Sec. 7. This act shall become effective on the first day of July,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two.