---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; increase weight limit tolerance for harvest permit vehicles and vehicles loading and unloading at state ports."
description: "Motor vehicles; increase weight limit tolerance for harvest permit vehicles and vehicles loading and unloading at state ports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2418"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2418 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Branning"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5063fc03-64cc-434e-912d-d1dd7d22a315"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2418.xml"
source_hash: "7a5cc7fc1de2e9147522e6f4e57b52c313665c6e399697bb4322aeee31c4cfa8"
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-ms"]
---

# Mississippi SB 2418 (2018) — Motor vehicles; increase weight limit tolerance for harvest permit vehicles and vehicles loading and unloading at state ports.

## Version chain

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

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2418IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2418PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2418SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **40–12** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **76–34** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **37–11** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Branning — primary (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5063fc03-64cc-434e-912d-d1dd7d22a315`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).