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.
This bill would require ballot questions to be “written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.” It is often very easy for public officials —...
We supported legislation which would formally codify an ongoing program in our state Department of Corrections which provides medicated assisted treatment for individuals who are incarcerated.
We strongly supported a piece of legislation which would expand the definition of race under our state anti-discrimination laws to include “traits historically associated with race.”
We supported this bill which would propose an amendment to the Rhode Island constitution guaranteeing the right to an adequate education.
The ACLU of Rhode Island is well aware of the threats that judicial officers across the country have increasingly faced in recent years across the country, and that this may warrant proactive measures. In...
The ACLU of Rhode Island had no position on the overall intent of this legislation, which generally relocates the chapter concerning massage therapy licensure from one section of the General Laws to another...