---
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).