---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles and operators. Amend KRS 138.715 to establish a fee of $500 for any licensee who fails to make any report required in KRS 138.660 to 138.7291; amend KRS 186.018 to change the Kentucky Driver's License Information System look back time from 5 years to 10 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to prohibit the masking of violations for a CDL holder from appearing on their CDLIS driver record; provide exemptions; amend KRS 281A.165 to change the time period of which the cabinet may waive a driving skills test for former military personnel, from 90 days of separation of service to one year; conform to federal regulation; amend KRS 281A.170 remove the requirement that a licensee's photograph be color; REPEAL KRS 138.670."
description: "AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles and operators. Amend KRS 138.715 to establish a fee of $500 for any licensee who fails to make any report required in KRS 138.660 to 138.7291; amend KRS 186.018 to change the Kentucky Driver's License Information System look back time from 5 years to 10 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to prohibit the masking of violations for a CDL holder from appearing on their CDLIS driver record; provide exemptions; amend KRS 281A.165 to change the time period of which the cabinet may waive a driving skills test for former military personnel, from 90 days of separation of service to one year; conform to federal regulation; amend KRS 281A.170 remove the requirement that a licensee's photograph be color; REPEAL KRS 138.670."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 277"
citation: "Kentucky HB 277 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Upchurch"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c15b88c8-3360-405c-894e-b9deb7d852bc"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB277.htm"
source_hash: "dd1d638e23de4d3c765229c966e9f17f478f55c994e6ee1d26585b52d892e30a"
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 277 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles and operators. Amend KRS 138.715 to establish a fee of $500 for any licensee who fails to make any report required in KRS 138.660 to 138.7291; amend KRS 186.018 to change the Kentucky Driver's License Information System look back time from 5 years to 10 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to prohibit the masking of violations for a CDL holder from appearing on their CDLIS driver record; provide exemptions; amend KRS 281A.165 to change the time period of which the cabinet may waive a driving skills test for former military personnel, from 90 days of separation of service to one year; conform to federal regulation; amend KRS 281A.170 remove the requirement that a licensee's photograph be color; REPEAL KRS 138.670.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 277 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB277/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB277/HCS1.pdf)
3. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB277/bill.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Upchurch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-01** To Transportation (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Posted in committee
- **2018-02-27** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute `reading-1`
- **2018-02-28** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 7, 2018
- **2018-03-13** 3rd reading, passed 66-27 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-14** Received in Senate
- **2018-03-15** To Transportation (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-03-22** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 29, 2018
- **2018-03-29** 3rd reading, passed 35-2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-29** Received in House
- **2018-03-29** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-03-29** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-03-29** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-04-10** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 135) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c15b88c8-3360-405c-894e-b9deb7d852bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).