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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human trafficking; increase certain penalties."
description: "Human trafficking; increase certain penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2305"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2305 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/791cfb14-e41f-45a0-ad07-21f7e255bda3"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "6517c5aac9c331cd9d67a65769feaaea7fdc15219d78832697b9aa2ad9fe07ff"
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 2305 (2019) — Human trafficking; increase certain penalties.
## 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/2019/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2305IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2305_H_Amend_02.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2305.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2305PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2305CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2305SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **510** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **510** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1160** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Watson — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Browning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Dawkins — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gollott — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(15th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Jolly — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Massey — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wilemon — cosponsor (person)
- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Cockerham, Bailey)
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeBar,Watson
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,White,Ford
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-16T05:00:00+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/791cfb14-e41f-45a0-ad07-21f7e255bda3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).