---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drunk and Drugged Driving Offenses – Penalties"
description: "Drunk and Drugged Driving Offenses – Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 707"
citation: "Maryland HB 707 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving", "Boats and Ships", "Drunk and Drugged Driving", "Homicide", "Manslaughter", "Motor Vehicles", "Penalties and Sentences", "Repeate Offenders"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crutchfield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca741e7-18f6-43ad-9167-29f7cc4b5b66"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB707&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "4061cab6c8519a8d076d9cd4ba7c5a6ba7cdcd6ae5f95df1eeefeeb0482ea798"
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 707 (2019) — Drunk and Drugged Driving Offenses – Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0707f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mangione — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Hearing canceled
- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {802410/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca741e7-18f6-43ad-9167-29f7cc4b5b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).