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.
As an organization that deeply values freedom of speech, our organization is very sympathetic to the goal of this bill, which creates a broad statutory right to free speech and the free exercise of religion...
We asked that legislation be amended which would "establish a safety and behavioral health committee" in an effort to "provide mental health supports to students in need." We strongly support this goal, but...
We opposed legislation that would regulate the use of "synthetic media" when used by a candidate to create campaign materials. We worry that this bill seeks to regulate speech in the sphere that the First...
Currently in Rhode Island, voters who are either disabled for an indefinite period or a long-term resident in a nursing home can request to automatically receive a mail ballot application for every election...
We opposed legislation which would not require the tabulating and reporting of write-in votes unless the total number of write-ins could affect the outcome of the race. Voters should have the right to have...
Currently in Rhode Island, political candidates are not allowed to conduct certain campaign activities like handing out flyers or holding signs within 50 feet of the door of a polling place. We opposed...