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All Legislation

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Students’ Rights

Training School

Budget articles passed by the legislature took some positive steps in addressing the continued overcrowding problem at the R.I. Training School.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

Health Information Exchange

One of the ACLU’s major, though not unexpected, defeats involved the passage of a bill that formalizes the establishment of a centralized health records database in the state.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

HIV Testing

For the third year in a row, doctors pushed to expand HIV testing, while reducing the confidentiality protections in place for patients and severely limiting HIV counseling requirements.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

Newborn Screening

The ACLU was unsuccessful in tightening up language, added at the last minute to a budget article, authorizing the Department of Health to require newborn screening for a variety of unspecified “conditions.”

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Residency Restrictions

In one of the most troubling actions of the session, the legislature hurriedly passed a bill making it a crime for any sex offender to live within 300 feet of a school.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Juvenile Offenders

ACLU lobbying removed language from an Attorney General bill that would have allowed the names of juvenile sex offenders to be posted on a state website.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Occupational Licensing

In approving a complete rewrite of the regulatory statute governing optometrists, the General Assembly – at the ACLU’s urging – took a modest step forward in eliminating troubling and archaic language that appears in most occupational licensing statutes.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

The Budget and the Poor

In seeking to close the state’s enormous fiscal deficit, the legislature’s 2009 budget contains a host of provisions significantly streamlining welfare procedures and slashing welfare programs, including RIte Care for the children of undocumented immigrants.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Mandatory Sentencing (H 8025, S 2232)

For the second year in a row, the Governor vetoed a bill that would have eliminated draconian mandatory minimum sentences contained in some of Rhode Island’s drug laws, which are the harshest in all of New England.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Students’ Rights

Training School

Budget articles passed by the legislature took some positive steps in addressing the continued overcrowding problem at the R.I. Training School.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

Health Information Exchange

One of the ACLU’s major, though not unexpected, defeats involved the passage of a bill that formalizes the establishment of a centralized health records database in the state.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

HIV Testing

For the third year in a row, doctors pushed to expand HIV testing, while reducing the confidentiality protections in place for patients and severely limiting HIV counseling requirements.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Privacy

Newborn Screening

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Residency Restrictions

In one of the most troubling actions of the session, the legislature hurriedly passed a bill making it a crime for any sex offender to live within 300 feet of a school.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Juvenile Offenders

ACLU lobbying removed language from an Attorney General bill that would have allowed the names of juvenile sex offenders to be posted on a state website.

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Criminal Justice

Occupational Licensing

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

The Budget and the Poor

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Legislation

Mar 07, 2008

Mandatory Sentencing (H 8025, S 2232)

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