---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"Dignity and Safety for Incarcerated Women Act\"; enact."
description: "\"Dignity and Safety for Incarcerated Women Act\"; enact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "Mississippi HB 188 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a88d5a1-db0b-454a-8272-ba2dabfe2086"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Eubanks.xml"
source_hash: "85a6b08422c0f32c457f09e182b0dce58364b6a6466251032ed2dea015f9c92d"
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 HB 188 (2025) — "Dignity and Safety for Incarcerated Women Act"; enact.

## 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/2025/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0188IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0188PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0188CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0188SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **103–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Newman — primary (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Corrections `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Corrections `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+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/0a88d5a1-db0b-454a-8272-ba2dabfe2086`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).