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.
Currently in Rhode Island, political candidates are not allowed to conduct certain campaign activities like handing out flyers or holding signs within 50 feet of the door of a polling place on Election Day...
We recently supported a resolution to eliminate the Rhode Island Constitutional requirement that bars individuals from voting in an election (except for President) unless they have registered to vote at...
Rhode Island's serious homelessness crisis cannot be solved by punishing the victims of that crisis. As such, we argued against legislation which would make it a crime punishable by a year in prison for a...
We opposed legislation that would impose a two-year residency requirement to qualify as a candidate for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, or general treasurer. We believe...
A recent court decision struck down a Rhode Island law that prohibited certain sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school. We opposed proposed legislation that responded to this court decision...
We testified in favor of legislation which would decriminalize sex work, ensuring that our criminal justice system is not utilized to take unnecessary punitive action against consent adults and that sex...