Virginia Credit Services Businesses Act; definitions; credit reports. Amends the definitions of "consumer reporting agency" and "credit services business" as they are used in the Virginia Credit Services Businesses Act and requires that the information statement provided to a consumer by a credit services business under the Act include a complete and accurate statement of a customer's right to receive a free copy of the consumer's credit report annually from each of the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies. The bill contains technical amendments.

Virginia Credit Services Businesses Act; contents of required information statement. Updates the contents of the information statement that a credit services business is required to provide to consumers to reflect changes to federal law. The bill also removes an obsolete provision related to private detectives.

Loan repayment programs; mental health professionals. Creates a loan repayment program for persons who have worked as mental health professionals in the Commonwealth for at least five years.

Warning devices on school buses; use before proposed stop. Increases the distance before a proposed stop that a school bus must use its warning devices from 100 feet to 200 feet if the lawful speed limit is less than 35 miles per hour and from 200 feet to 500 feet if the lawful speed limit is 35 miles per hour or more.

Conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; cannabis licensees. Deconforms from federal law, as it applies to Virginia medical and recreational cannabis licensees, the prohibition on a deduction for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business if such trade or business consists of trafficking in a controlled substance prohibited by federal law.

Institutions of higher education; human trafficking awareness and prevention training required. Directs the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring that a trauma-informed human trafficking awareness and prevention training program be provided to and completed by all first-year students as a part of such institution's first-year orientation program. The bill also directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to encourage private institutions of higher education to develop and implement policies to provide such a human trafficking awareness and prevention training program as a part of their first-year orientation programs.

Veterans' Teaching Licensure Support Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Veterans' Teaching Licensure Support Fund and Program for the purpose of supporting veterans and service members teaching in a public school in the Commonwealth or pursuing a career in education in the Commonwealth by awarding a reimbursement grant to eligible veterans and service members to reimburse them for their professional studies tuition expenses incurred toward receiving teacher licensure in the Commonwealth.

Insurrections; bar to serving in positions of public trust. Bars any person convicted of participating in an insurrection under the laws of the Commonwealth or any substantially similar offense under the laws of another state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the United States from serving in any position of public trust, defined in the bill, within the Commonwealth.

Public high schools; special education; identification of faculty member responsible for school transition planning and coordination. Requires each public high school in the Commonwealth to publicly identify on its official website the faculty member responsible for special education transition planning and coordination at such high school.

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.

Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing. Prohibits the use of restorative housing, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that an incarcerated person who has been placed in restorative housing be offered a minimum of four hours of out-of-cell programmatic interventions or other congregate activities per day aimed at promoting personal development or addressing underlying causes of problematic behavior. The bill also requires the facility administrator to have a defined and publicly available policy and procedure for the process of transitioning an incarcerated person placed in restorative housing out of such housing and back to the general population of the facility.

Education improvement scholarships tax credits; transferability. Allows a taxpayer entitled to an education improvement scholarships tax credit to transfer such credit to any other taxpayer.

Local ordinances; vehicle exhaust; operation on property near residential district. Allows local governing bodies to regulate, by ordinance, noise from vehicles not conforming to exhaust system requirements that are operated on highways or on public or private property in or within 500 feet of any residential district. Current law only allows such regulation by ordinance from such vehicles that are operated on a highway.

Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat. Under the bill, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may require the clergy member to comply with all reasonable health and safety requirements and may restrict visits of a clergy member who fails a health screening measure or tests positive for a communicable disease of public health concern. If the health and safety requirement substantially burdens the clergy member's free exercise of religion, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may require compliance only if the requirement furthers a compelling health and safety interest and imposes the least restrictive requirement. The bill provides immunity for hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities and their employees and contractors from liability for injury or death due to exposure to a communicable disease of public health concern resulting from or related to such visitation, except in limited circumstances. The bill also allows a person or religious organization to bring a civil action against a hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility alleging a violation of such visitation provisions.

Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees; membership. Expands from 19 to 20 members the total membership of the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees by adding an additional nonlegislative citizen member and stipulates that the 12 nonlegislative citizen members shall include one person from each of the 11 congressional districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe. Current law stipulates that the 11 nonlegislative citizen members shall include one person from each congressional district, at least one of whom shall be a member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe.