Voting Reform
Designed to strengthen the franchise in Rhode Island, the legislation would overturn restrictive Board of Elections’ policies that substantially limit the counting of provisional ballots and restrict 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.
Designed to strengthen the franchise in Rhode Island, the legislation would overturn restrictive Board of Elections’ policies that substantially limit the counting of provisional ballots and restrict the...
For the third year in a row, the City of Providence was unsuccessful in its efforts to expand the penalties for prostitution.
Two anti-choice bills were heard by House committee this year, but no votes were taken on them.
Overriding a Gubernatorial veto, Rhode Island took the positive step of making permanent a law passed last year allowing patients with specific serious and terminal illnesses to possess small amounts of...