Every year, the ACLU of RI lobbies on hundreds of bills during Rhode Island's annual Legislative Session. Below are some of the bills we have tracked and testified on before the General Assembly. For more info on advocating for the issues you care about, check out our Advocacy 101 Guide. To see how your Reps and Senators voted on various bills over the past few years, visit our Legislative Scorecards page.
Under this legislation, licensed cannabis sellers would be required to post signs warning that the consumption of marijuana during pregnancy poses a risk to infant development. This bill unintentionally...
Although it may appear counterintuitive, one of the most effective ways to address substance use disorder is through the establishment of clinics in which an individual can self-administer previously...
Though we are very sympathetic to the interest in protecting employees in light of the nationwide upswell of threats made to various personnel, we opposed legislation that would make it a felony with a...
As juvenile and inadvisable as it is to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexually explicit, but fake, digital images, criminalizing the dissemination of such digitally generated content...
We strongly supported legislation that eliminates the requirement that an applicant to become a licensed clinical social worker pass a standardized written test, noting that standardized testing can often...
These bills would allow healthcare facilities to conduct certain human-subject research without following the standard protocols requiring informed patient consent and confidentiality. While any such...