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Equal Pay (H 5261 A, S 270 A)
We supported this legislation that would address the issue of unequal pay for female workers, and would ban harmful employment practices that allow employers to ask for the former salary of a prospective...
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.
We supported this legislation that would address the issue of unequal pay for female workers, and would ban harmful employment practices that allow employers to ask for the former salary of a prospective...
We strongly supported legislation which would make two important advances towards enhanced criminal justice policy in Rhode Island.
Although the version of this bill introduced in 2019 would have provided important and comprehensive protections for parents with disabilities and was strongly supported by the ACLU, a revised version...
Two separate pieces of legislation introduced this session would have addressed different aspects of sex work decriminalization.
This legislation will exempt from open records requests the disclosure of the municipality of residency for a public employee or police officer.
We supported a critical piece of legislation which would have largely eliminated the ability for a K-5 student to be given an out-of-school suspension and strengthened the current reporting requirements for...