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    • Contact & Join Us!
    • The Womxn Project Education Fund
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    • Policy
      • Campaign for Equal Abortion Coverage
      • History of the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
      • Clean Budget 2022
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      • Reproductive Privacy Act, 2019
    • Exposing Fake Clinics in RI Report, 2021
    • Abortion Interview Series
    • Solidarity Sign-Ons
    • Testimony
  • Artivism
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Submitted Testimony

The following is a library of testimony submitted.
(Not all voices have been captured as multiple TWP organizers submit testimony on these issues.)

2022

  • June  2022:
    S2637, S2653, and S2825: Implement gun safety reform measures
  • May 2022:
    S2549: Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
    H7442: Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
  • April 2022:
    H7539: Copycat of bills from other states that pushes a racist, anti-gay and anti-transgender agenda
    S2007: Ensures Access to Voting by Mail
    S2202: Post-Partum Coverage in Medicaid
    S2285: Comprehensive Sex Education
    H7789: Rhode Island Works is a safety net for families in times of crisis
    H7306
    , 7307, 7405: Anti-Abortion Bill Suite
    H7189: Ban on Abortions
    H7548: Anti-Abortion Resolution
    S2713: Decriminalize sex work & expand eligibility for expungement of criminal records for past convictions related to sex work
  • March 2022:
    S2548: Special enrollment for pregnancy
    S2316: Rhode Island Works
    Letter to DOE: Reinstate Arts as a Core Content Area
    S2006: Driver’s licenses for undocumented people
  • February 2022:
    H7560 and H7500: Ensure health insurance protections currently offered under the federal ACA
    H.7346: Pharmacists to dispense contraception after initial health screening
    S2216: Ensures Access to Voting by Mail and Improves the Process for Requesting a Mail-in Ballot
    H6637: Relating to Criminal Offenses and Sexual Assault
    H7166, Comprehensive Sex Education
    H7138: Parental Rights Bill
  • January 2022:
    H7183: Ensures important health insurance protections currently offered under the federal ACA are included in our state laws

2021

  • May 2021:
    Letter of Support: Governor’s Budget Article 13, section 5
    Amendment to H5270: Requires hotels to have staff take anti-trafficking trainings
    H5787, H6075, & H5790: Eliminate state bans on health coverage for state employees and the Medicaid program
    H6075 (and H5787 and H5709): Ensures 12 months post-partum coverage in Medicaid
    S. 771: Makes prostitution a civil fine rather than a misdemeanor
  • April 2021:
    S.614: Create a license plate that funnels money to fake health centers
    S.267: Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
    H.5929:Doula Care
    H.5552, H.5579, H.5037, and H.5582/S664: Inflammatory claims about labor, delivery care, and how abortion care is provided
    H.5865 & H.5996: Which could take away all access to abortion as early as 6-8 weeks
    H.5683: Meet the needs of low-income Rhode Islanders by making critical changes to the RI Works program
  • March 2021:
    H.6070: An Act Relating to Education Curriculum
    S.62: Confidentiality of patient’s information in the explanation of benefits (EOBs) that are provided by insurance companies
    S251: Ensures access to free menstrual products in prisons
    S.484: Supports and Provides Reimbursement for Prenatal Doula Services
    H.6003: Address barriers to voting and help to ensure that we are all able to make our voices heard at the ballot box
    S.516: Addressing barriers to voting and help to ensure that we are all able to make our voices heard at the ballot box
    H.5544: Unprofessional conduct for doctors to do a pelvic exam on an unconscious or anesthetized woman
    H5843: Ensure important health insurance protections currently offered under the federal Affordable Care Act are included in our state laws
    H5763: Prohibits insurance companies from varying the premium rates charged for a health coverage plan based on gender
    H5604: Ensures that young people in Rhode Island public schools in grade 6-12th will receive comprehensive sex education
  • February 2021
    S.0323: Ensure that domestic workers in Rhode Island at least receive the state minimum wage
    S.0271: Raise the wage for direct-care workers
    S.0270: Fair Pay
    H.5250: Creates a study commission to revise laws on commercial sexual activity
    H.5467: Ensures that people will not be prosecuted for commercial sex work if they are witnesses to crimes
    S.0249: Affirms that if a police officer has sex with someone they have arrested or detained, that is sexual assault
    H. 5241: Pharmacists to dispense contraception after an initial health screening
    Providence City Council: Opposing VIP Room Bans
    H. 5028: Promoting civics literacy by requiring public school students in Rhode Island to complete a course in American Civics proficiency
    H. 5083: Providing free menstrual products in public schools and prisons
  • January 2021
    H. 5006, 5007, 5008, 5009, 5010, 5011:Safe & Accessible Govt

2020

  • March 1, 2020
    H.7440: End Gender Rating
  • February 2020
    H.7355: Existence of a fetal heartbeat or flutter
    S.2124: Make doula services eligible for reimbursement through private insurance and Medicaid programs
    S.2136 / H.7541: Update parentage laws to take out gendered language around surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology in order to end discrimination against LGBTQ parents and families
    Testimony in favor of RI Board of Elections’ proposed rule to allow state and local candidates to use campaign funds for child care needed to run or hold office

2019

  • May 29, 2019
    S.509: Fair Pay Act
  • April 26, 2019
    H.5609/S.0678: Doula Services Covered by Insurance & Medicaid
  • January 2019
    Proposed Sexual Harassment Fix and House Rules Reform (combined)
    S.152 / H.5127: The Reproductive Health Care Act

2018

  • June 7, 2018
    H 8278, H 8281, H 8280, H8279, H8276, H8275, H8277, H7888: Sexual Harassment Bill Package
  • May 31, 2018
    S.2163: Reproductive Health Care Act
  • May 17, 2018
    H.7891: Licenses for DACA Recipients
  • April 25, 2018
    H.7653/S.2525: Protecting Contraception Access Bill

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