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.
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...
We opposed legislation which would have required that all campus police officers at a public institution of higher education in RI be armed.
We supported legislation which would have required public bodies to establish a plan for providing translation services at public meetings.
We opposed legislation which would have created a "school security committee" charged with facilitating the presence of “armed security personnel” in every school and promoting techniques for student...
We urged amendments to legislation which would allows allowing hotels to eject patrons who use “verbally abusive language.”
As a piece of explicit voter suppression legislation, we opposed this bill which sought to criminalize “ballot harvesters,” but was so broadly worded that it could have subjected every single voter in Rhode...