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 strongly supported this bill which would have appropriately allocated $2,000,000 for the hiring of school social workers.
We strongly supported legislation which would have required a fiscal impact analyses for any bills which increase or put in place criminal sentences.
We opposed two pieces of legislation which would have indefinitely extended the reimbursement structure that had previously existed for SROs, incentivizing schools to continue to hire personnel who are not...
We strongly supported this legislation which would have reclassified the simple possession of 28 grams or less of certain controlled substances from a felony to a misdemeanor.
We urged amendment to this legislation, which sought to make certification easier for teachers in order to address a severe teacher shortage, to include a moratorium on the current standardized testing...
We urged that language which appropriately accommodates students with disabilities who may need more time to complete their studies be included in the codification of a bill that would extend a free tuition...