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 Voting Records page.
The Governor vetoed a bill that merely sought to set up a study commission to examine the state’s medical marijuana law and possible ways to provide a safe means for authorized patients to obtain the drug...
Despite the very difficult session for civil liberties as chronicled in the previous pages, it is worth noting that the Affiliate had many successes in keeping damaging legislation from ever reaching the...
Despite efforts by the ACLU and Marriage Equality R.I., no action was taken on Affiliate legislation specifying that the Family Court has jurisdiction to grant divorces to validly-married same-sex couples...
The General Assembly unanimously passed a bill promoted by the Affiliate to make clear that plaintiffs have three years, rather than one year, to sue under the Rhode Island Civil Rights Act, a major state...