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 recently supported a resolution to eliminate the Rhode Island Constitutional requirement that bars individuals from voting in an election (except for President) unless they have registered to vote at...
We strongly opposed legislation which would make it a crime punishable by a year in prison for a person to "occupy a dwelling unit or other structure" without permission. This criminalization is cruel and...
We opposed legislation that would impose a two-year residency requirement to qualify as a candidate for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, or general treasurer. We believe...
A recent court decision struck down a Rhode Island law that prohibited certain sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school. We opposed proposed legislation that responded to this court decision...
This legislation would require police to complete and electronically submit a domestic violence/sexual assault reporting form when responding to domestic violence incidents which includes the words "...
We testified in favor of legislation which would decriminalize sex work, ensuring that our criminal justice system is not utilized to take unnecessary punitive action against consent adults and that sex...