---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles. Amend KRS 189.222 to extend a 10 percent weight tolerance for vehicles engaged exclusively in the transportation of feed for livestock or poultry; permit a vehicle registered under KRS 186.050(3) transporting certain meats, agricultural crop products, or livestock to exceed the gross weight provisions by a weight tolerance of 10 percent."
description: "AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles. Amend KRS 189.222 to extend a 10 percent weight tolerance for vehicles engaged exclusively in the transportation of feed for livestock or poultry; permit a vehicle registered under KRS 186.050(3) transporting certain meats, agricultural crop products, or livestock to exceed the gross weight provisions by a weight tolerance of 10 percent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Kentucky HB 174 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ae627c2-7d1a-4f71-8763-b5cbf68a2685"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB174.htm"
source_hash: "6ed8bd50b66de78df78746f2947a88372e5f9acb62737fdbfde9c8282da1ae6e"
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-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 174 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles. Amend KRS 189.222 to extend a 10 percent weight tolerance for vehicles engaged exclusively in the transportation of feed for livestock or poultry; permit a vehicle registered under KRS 186.050(3) transporting certain meats, agricultural crop products, or livestock to exceed the gross weight provisions by a weight tolerance of 10 percent.

## Version chain

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

1. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB174/bill.pdf)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-02-07** To Agriculture (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Posted in committee
- **2017-02-08** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 10, 2017
- **2017-02-10** 3rd reading, passed 81-13 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-13** Received in Senate
- **2017-02-13** To Agriculture (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017
- **2017-02-16** 3rd reading, passed 35-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** Received in House
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-02-16** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 8) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ae627c2-7d1a-4f71-8763-b5cbf68a2685`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).