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.
We opposed legislation which would provide unlimited authority to the Attorney General to conduct civil investigations in virtually every corner of public or private life.
We opposed this bill, noting that the complete abandonment of any statute of limitations hobbles the due process rights of ciriminal defendants.
We strongly supported this bill which would provide long-overdue mechanisms to enforce the state Constitution’s Declaration of Rights, which “guarantees” the State’s residents critically important civil...
We opposed legislation which would allow municipalities to record liens against a person’s property if they failed to pay any municipal fines – including for parking violations or minor offenses like...
Current law allows municipalities to limit the maximum number of unrelated persons who can live together in a dwelling, but of no less than three people. We supported this bill which would increase the...
This bill addressed probate court practices for hearing name change petitions, and in doing so, established a standard for sealing name change petition requests if there is good cause to believe it...