Criminal Law - Motor Vehicle - Criminal Negligence (Sergeant Patrick Keep Act)

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Prohibiting a person from driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle in a criminally negligent manner; providing that a person acts in a criminally negligent manner when the person should be aware, but fails to perceive, that the person's conduct creates a substantial risk to the safety of other persons or to property and the failure to perceive constitutes a gross deviation from the standards of care that would be exercised by a reasonable person; etc.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Jan 31, 2025CommitteeFirst Reading Judicial Proceedings · Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
2. Feb 4, 2025SenateHearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
3. Mar 14, 2025CommitteeFavorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings · Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
4. Mar 14, 2025SenateFavorable with Amendments { 383629/1 Adopted
5. Mar 14, 2025SenateSecond Reading Passed with Amendments
6. Mar 17, 2025SenateThird Reading Passed (44-0)44–0 vote
7. Mar 17, 2025CommitteeReferred Judiciary · House of Delegates Judiciary Committee
8. Mar 19, 2025House of DelegatesHearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
9. Mar 26, 2025House of DelegatesHearing canceled
10. Mar 26, 2025House of DelegatesHearing 3/26 at 3:15 p.m.

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 1 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee and other votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 6 cosponsors: 4 Democrats, 2 Republicans.

• Nancy J. KingD Primary sponsor · District 39