Same-Sex Marriage
Although no vote was taken in committee this year, support for same-sex marriage legislation continued to grow.
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.
Although no vote was taken in committee this year, support for same-sex marriage legislation continued to grow.
A number of bills with civil liberties implications did not make it out of the General Assembly this session.
In the waning hours of the session, the legislature approved an important ACLU bill designed to address privacy concerns raised by the state’s new barcoded drivers’ licenses.
The legislature took no action on a bill introduced late in the session to allow cities and towns to use “red light cameras.”