---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to street-legal special purpose vehicles."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to define \"special purpose vehicle\" and \"street-legal special purpose vehicle\"; allow street-legal special purpose vehicles to operate on a highway under certain circumstances; prohibit street-legal special purpose vehicles from traveling a distance greater than 20 miles on a highway displaying centerline pavement markings; require street-legal special purpose vehicles to register the vehicle and comply with all requirements of KRS Chapter 186; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 186.020 and 186.050 to conform"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "Kentucky SB 63 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "County Clerks", "Fiscal Note", "Highways", "Streets", "and Bridges", "Local Mandate", "Motor Vehicles", "State Agencies", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e929ccc2-b72b-4f19-89cb-c329dde06a47"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb63.html"
source_hash: "c1ffa2152a0ee25f001c4f3b4b82c82351930584101b090a75de98ee31d81aeb"
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 SB 63 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to street-legal special purpose vehicles.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to define "special purpose vehicle" and "street-legal special purpose vehicle"; allow street-legal special purpose vehicles to operate on a highway under certain circumstances; prohibit street-legal special purpose vehicles from traveling a distance greater than 20 miles on a highway displaying centerline pavement markings; require street-legal special purpose vehicles to register the vehicle and comply with all requirements of KRS Chapter 186; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 186.020 and 186.050 to conform

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb63/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 89** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0089.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb63/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS SB 63 W/ scs1 — **34–4** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage SB 63 W/ hcs1 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **93–2** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Transportation (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 34-4 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Appropriations & Revenue (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 93-2 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 89) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e929ccc2-b72b-4f19-89cb-c329dde06a47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).