Interpreter Services (H 7299, S 2689)
The Senate approved an ACLU bill requiring the Department of Human Services to provide appropriate language interpreter services to clients. The bill codified a consent agreement that DHS has with the...
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 Scorecards page.
The Senate approved an ACLU bill requiring the Department of Human Services to provide appropriate language interpreter services to clients. The bill codified a consent agreement that DHS has with the...
A budget article establishing a special kind of charter school, known as mayoral academies, initially contained a provision allowing the academies to be exempt from a wide variety of school mandates,...
The Affiliate successfully opposed a bill that sought to expand the definition of criminal “harassment” to include not just unwanted direct contact, but also the posting of information on Web sites about...
The ACLU also successfully objected when a completely revised “welfare reform” provision in the proposed 2009 budget authorized the Department of Human Services to apply for federal funding for so-called “...