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.
We supported legislation that would have both renewed the data collection provisions and annual report requirements of the CCPRA and imposed more stringent requirements on the collection and analysis of the...
Critical proposed changes to the state’s Fair Employment Practices Act were introduced in two separate pieces of legislation.
We testified in support of a bill which would have granted legal immunity to individuals engaged in commercial sexual activity who report a crime that they are either a victim of or witness to.
We testified in favor of two bills which would have explicitly decriminalized sex work and ensured that sex workers would be able to approach their work without inappropriate stigmatization.
The importance of the 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act – and continued advocacy around abortion rights – is especially clear in light of the slew of anti-choice bills which were introduced during this session...
Opposed by the ACLU, this legislation would have allowed Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) to attest to a patient’s mental health condition and participate in certifying patients for mandated...