Maryland House of Delegates adopts package of bills; nursing‑home reporting and immigration privacy provisions draw debate

The Maryland House of Delegates on April 7, 2025, adopted a slate of conference committee reports and bills, approving measures that include new reporting requirements for nursing‑home inspections and changes to immigration‑enforcement and privacy policy while clearing dozens of other items on the third‑reading calendar.

Lawmakers said the measures address oversight of long‑term care facilities and narrow — but debated — elements of state policy on immigration enforcement and data privacy. Several other bills on procurement reform, transit reorganization work groups, childcare programs and disaster recovery transfers were handled with little or no debate and were declared passed on recorded votes.

A key debate centered on a conference report for Senate Bill 376, which requires the Department of Health and the Office of Health Care Quality to provide new, regular reports on nursing‑home surveys and complaints. "The result of the conference was a bill that requires the Department of Health and the Office of Healthcare Quality to report annually to the Finance and Health and Government Operations Committee the number and names of all of the nursing homes surveyed throughout the year, including all of the different tiers of surveys and the number of complaints that were addressed and resolved," a committee vice chair told the chamber. "In addition, the local agencies are going to get reports, every six months on the number of nursing homes that were surveyed in their locality in the prior six months so that we're going to keep track of the surveys now." The measure was adopted and declared passed.

Lawmakers also debated changes to state policy on immigration enforcement and related privacy…