MS HB585

Creates "Dignity and Safety for Incarcerated Women Act" requiring all restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters in correctional facilities accessible to multiple individuals be designated for single-sex use only, with incarcerated individuals prohibited from entering facilities designated for the opposite sex.

Provides exceptions allowing cross-sex entry to correctional facility restrooms and sleeping quarters for custodial/maintenance purposes, medical assistance, emergencies, or temporary facility-directed purposes (excluding overnight housing).

Grants incarcerated individuals private right of action for declaratory and injunctive relief against correctional facilities that permitted or failed to prevent opposite-sex individuals from using their designated facilities, with two-year statute of limitations and attorney's fees recovery available.

Extends requirements to institutions of higher education, mandating single-sex educational housing spaces provide either sex-designated restrooms or unisex restrooms, and requiring students be offered single-sex housing options.

Makes it trespass to willfully enter a single-sex dormitory space designated for the opposite sex at public higher education buildings and refuse to leave when instructed; allows persons to assert violations in judicial/administrative proceedings to recover compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees.