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 ACLU of RI opposed a provision in the budget which would provide new authority to the Office of Internal Audit and Program Integrity to investigate reports of alleged fraud in public assistance programs...
The ACLU of RI strongly opposed this budget provision which would require the Division of Taxation to "develop and operate a financial institution data match system for the purpose of identifying and...
The R.I. Supreme Court has held that, without legislative authorization, the state Constitution’s Declaration of Rights is not enforceable. We therefore strongly supported this bill which would provide long...
Under state law, municipalities can charge no more than $500 for violations of municipal ordinances that do not rise to the level of criminal offenses. Under this legislation, that number could have doubled...
Though we appreciate the intentions behind this legislation, which would eliminate the statute of limitations for filing civil suits alleging sexual abuse, we...
The ACLU of Rhode Island strongly opposed this legislation, introduced on behalf of the Attorney General, which would give his office veto power over a criminal defendant’s current legal right to waive...