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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving (Sergeant Patrick Kepp Act)"
+description: "Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving (Sergeant Patrick Kepp Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 744"
+citation: "Maryland HB 744 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Behler", "Boyce", "Edelson", "Foley", "Guyton", "Harris", "Hill", "Kaufman", "Lopez", "McComas", "Palakovich Carr", "Phillips", "R. Lewis", "Schindler", "Solomon", "Spiegel", "Stewart", "Taylor", "Toles", "Wims", "Wolek", "Ziegler"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-27"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03e9d28b-6748-4f92-8334-4432b88fd6f8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0744?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2be2737dddf01293892715989b6518c7b8748a8852c9b99c9468ba98605954f6"
+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 HB 744 (2025) — Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving (Sergeant Patrick Kepp Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving (Sergeant Patrick Kepp Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_446_hb0744t.pdf)
+2. **First - Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0744f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0744t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Addison — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Edelson — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Schindler — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Wolek — primary (person)
+- Ziegler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-27** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Committee Amendment {
+- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 446 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03e9d28b-6748-4f92-8334-4432b88fd6f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+