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In 2025, the ACLU of RI lobbied on over 350 bills and tracked over 1,000 pieces of legislation. To see how your Representatives and Senators voted on a few of those issues, our 2025 Legislative Voting Record is below.

Between the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions, the ACLU of RI lobbied on 676 pieces of legislation and tracked thousands of bills. To see how your Representatives and Senators voted on a few of those issues between these two sessions, our 2023-2024 Legislative Scorecard is below.

In 2023, the ACLU of RI lobbied on over 350 bills and tracked over 1,000 pieces of legislation. To see how your Representatives and Senators voted on a few of those issues, our 2023 Legislative Scorecard is below.

Between the 2021 and 2022 legislative sessions, the ACLU of RI lobbied on 725 pieces of legislation and tracked thousands of bills. Click here see how your Representatives and Senators voted on a few of those issues between these two sessions and view our 2021-2022 Legislative Scorecard.

The 2019 Legislative Session saw hundreds of advocates and community organizations lobby and demonstrate daily at the Statehouse over abortion rights, making the passage of the Reproductive Privacy Act a momentous victory.

2018 seemed like it should be the year of #MeToo, but the War on Drugs and other long-fought battles instead reared their head.

The 2017 Legislative Session was an interesting one. Hundreds of bills were introduced and passed - some good, some not.