Legislation

This bill would have ensured the accessibility of higher education to students who have spent a considerable amount of their adolescence in Rhode Island but may not have citizenship status.

This legislation would have ensured that an individual’s prior criminal record is not the sole measure by which an applicant is disqualified for a license, and would have created a comprehensive process for determining the relevancy of a conviction to the license being sought.

Regardless of who a vote is for, all voters fundamentally deserve the right for their votes to be counted. For this reason, we opposed a bill which would have eliminated the counting of write-in votes for persons who had not filed in advance a “declaration of intent.”

In an effort to protect the medical privacy of individual members on an insurance plan, this legislation would have required that explanation of benefit documents be sent to the member that they concern, rather than the holder of the plan.

While wealthier individuals who can post bail are permitted to go home while awaiting their hearings, those without immediate cash flow are forced to stay in jail until their case is heard, creating a wealth-based incarceration system.

The implications of a felony charge versus a misdemeanor are substantial, and impact numerous facets of one’s life, including access to employment, housing and higher education. This legislation would have reclassified simple drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor.

This legislation would have prohibited the questioning of a juvenile suspected of criminal activity without a parent or legal guardian present.

This legislation creates threat assessment teams for each school in Rhode Island and allows individual school boards to adopt relevant policies for their implementation.

We testified in favor of this critical legislation, noting that open and equal access is a cornerstone to the ubiquitously used and indispensable medium of the internet.