REMARKS
Council Member Rita Joseph introduces 4 pieces of legislation (Intros 986 and 987, Res. 499 and 500)
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Council Member Rita Joseph introduces four pieces of legislation and co-primes two others, focusing on student wellness and food surplus reduction in schools.
- Joseph proposes a pilot program to involve mental health professionals in public high school wellness clubs
- Another pilot program aims to develop and distribute educational materials on reducing surplus food in public schools
- Joseph calls for Congress to pass the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act
- A resolution urges New York State to allow remote learning options for immunocompromised students and faculty in state universities
- The Council Member acknowledges interns from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Rita Joseph
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Today, I'm thrilled to be introducing 4 pieces of legislation and co prime, 2 others alongside my colleagues, council member Judy Menin, and council member Lincoln Pressler.
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Into 986 is a law in relation to a pilot program to involve mental health professionals and professional candidates and students wellness clubs and public schools and high schools.
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H2987 is a relation to a pilot program to develop, distribute educational material regarding the reduction of surplus food in public schools.
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And Resolution 499 calling on the United States Congress to pass and the president's assigned the protective protecting consumers with the deceptive AI act.
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And resolution 500 calling on the New York State legislator to introduce and pass governance assigned legislation to New York City School Safety Act to require that all campus of state university near in CUNY to permit autoimmune and immune compromised students and facilities to learn faculty to learn and teach via remote instruction in as many courses as feasible whenever students offer faculty are dealing with that, impacting their condition, which would prevent them from fully functioning.
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And I'd also like to shout out my intern when in ATN and Lily from the Simon Wollzenthal Centre.
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Thank you.