---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting"
description: "Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 376"
citation: "Maryland SB 376 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "C. Jackson", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "Ready"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3475fdf7-126c-41cd-b4a1-e3070c3ec8a9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0376?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3e1629a37fab2be53c083bfd02d23603f3cdaacef57d95a1c7e44a7bf183475c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 376 (2025) — Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_680_sb0376e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0376e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Facilities - Delegation of Inspection Authority - Nursing Homes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0376f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Facilities - Delegation of Inspection Authority - Nursing Homes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0376t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- C. Jackson — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-17** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Ready and Hayes)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Ready and Hayes)
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Cullison, Kaiser and M. Morgan)
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Cullison, Kaiser and M. Morgan)
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3475fdf7-126c-41cd-b4a1-e3070c3ec8a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).