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 legislation which would generally prohibit the detention of a juvenile under the age of 14 at the Rhode Island Training School.
The ACLU of RI was in strong support of this legislation which would repeal two discriminatory and outmoded laws that unfairly target sex workers. The first is an indefensible law enacted more than a decade...
We opposed legislation which would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison, for a person between the ages of 18 and 21 to engage in electronic casino gaming, or iGaming.
We supported this bill which would make it illegal for employers and public accommodations to discriminate against individuals based on their weight.
We strongly supported this legislation which included a number of updates to our state Homeless Bill of Rights statute.
We strongly supported this bill which would provide long-overdue mechanisms to enforce the state Constitution’s Declaration of Rights, which “guarantees” the State’s residents critically important civil...