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Simon Fights for Students with Disabilities
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caption: 'January 22, 2019<br />"Previously, I worked with deaf and hearing women for many years , counseling and coaching them through their abortion procedures at a clinic in Washington D.C. The experience affected me deeply and taught me a great deal. While I learned much from the doctors and nurses, I learned most from the one-on-one counseling of over a thousand women of all ages, races and life circumstances," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon while voting in support of the Reproductive Health Act. <a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=21&term=2019&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A00021</a><br /> ',
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caption: 'May 22, 2018<br /> "It is my great honor and privilege to second the nomination of Barbara Underwood to be the Attorney General of the State of New York. From just a brief glimpse at Barbara Underwood's resume, you know that she is truly exceptional. She is exceptional in the law and protecting the civil rights and liberties of New Yorkers and all Americans. In her leadership, that places great value in developing and promoting talented attorneys. Under her leadership, she has given real substantive opportunities to women and people of color… Barbara Underwood is one of the finest Attorneys in our country," said Assemblymember Simon while voting in the affirmative to elect Barbara Underwood to be the Attorney General for New York State.<br /><br /> ',
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caption: 'May 1, 2018<br />"The use of gender language fireman or policeman is antiquated and inaccurate. It promotes an outdated world view that suggests to young girls and young boys alike that law enforcement and firefighting is only open to men,"  said Assemblywoman Jo Ann Simon, during a press conference on legislation she sponsored to replace the words fireman or policeman with firefighter or police officer to promote participation in those professions regardless of gender. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A08321&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A8321-C</a>)<br /> ',
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Assemblymember Simon Speaks on Degenderized Professions
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caption: 'April 19, 2018<br />"We thought what better idea than to have the input of people here at Dyslexia Awareness Day to talk about what you think needs to be in a guidance memorandum, what your concerns are, what your experiences have been and helpful hints that you think would be helpful if school districts knew and should know," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon at a gathering on Dyslexia Awareness Day in Albany.<br />Â ',
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Dyslexia Awareness Day
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caption: 'April 17, 2018<br />"It is critical that we in fact treat LLCs as the entities that they are. And treat them in such a way that they are not allowed to be a subterfuge to hide who they are and the amounts of money that they are giving and astronomical amounts of money," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, who authored legislation to increase transparency and fairness in the electoral process by closing the Limited Liability Company (LLC) loophole. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=9758&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.9758A</a>).<br />Â ',
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Assemblywoman Simon Passes Bill to Close the LLC Loophole
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caption: 'March 31, 2018<br />"I am very pleased that we have been able to include Design-Build. It is critical to my district and to the economy and to the lives of the people in New York that we have Design-Build for the BQE and for NYCHA and for the facilities that will replace Riker's Island, one of which is also in my district," stated Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon while expressing her thoughts on the investments made for Design-Build, a project delivery method where a single contract can provide both design and construction services, for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) and for the New York State Housing Authority (NYCHA) properties within the final budget vote of the state fiscal plan for the 2018-2019 state fiscal year. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=9504&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.9504D</a>)<br />Â ',
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Simon Helps Pass New York State Budget
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caption: 'March 13, 2018<br />"I think what we have here is a very strong effort to criminalize, that which should be recognized in the law, and which is a healthcare decision. It is a healthcare decision to be made by women," said Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon in her statement of support for the Women's Reproductive Health Act, that would affirm a woman's right to choose (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=1748&term=2017&Summary=Y\">A. 1748</a>).<br />Â ',
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Assemblywoman Simon Supports Women's Reproductive Health Act
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caption: 'March 6, 2018<br />"With an Extreme Risk Protection Order, this would address the gap and create a new legal framework so that people who pose as a serious risk to themselves or others can be identified, a petition can be brought to the court, and the court will rule based on whether there is probable cause that the person is engaging in behaviors that are warning signs," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon during a Gun Safety Press Conference.<br />Â ',
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Simon Speaks About Gun Safety and Warning Signs
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caption: 'March 6, 2018<br />"Family and Household members are very often the first to know when someone is experiencing a crisis or exhibiting dangerous behavior. Many even report their fears to law enforcement. In New York  as in many states, law enforcement officers may not have the authority to intervene based on the evidence they are provided with. Interventions that could help tragedies from occurring including inter-personal gun violence or gun suicides," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon sponsor of the Extreme Risk Protection Order, which prohibits a person who exhibits serious signs of being a threat to themselves or others from purchasing or possessing a firearm (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?term=2017&bn=A08976\">A.8976-B</a>).<br /> ',
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Assemblymember Simon Speaks on the Extreme Risk Protection Order
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caption: 'March 6, 2018<br />\"It removes firearms from those who should not have them and does it with respect for the Second Amendment, and for people's due process rights,<br />which I might add, is in the First Amendment. Simply put, this bill will save lives,\" said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, who authored legislation that<br />would establish extreme risk protection orders as a court-issued order of protection prohibiting a person from purchasing or possessing a firearm. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=8976&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.8976</a>)<br />Â ',
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Simon Authors Extreme Rick Protection Order Legislation
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caption: 'February 27, 2018<br />"One of the things we have been talking about as others have mentioned is this notion of behaviors that we can all observe. People knew about this shooter in Parkland, we knew about the shooter in San Bernardino, we've known about the shooter disintegrating and coming apart and descending into a collision course towards gun violence in so many instances but we haven't had the mechanism, the civil mechanism – not a criminal mechanism –  to do that," said Assemblywoman Simon as she spoke during a press conference to address the glaring gun violence issues.    <br /> ',
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Assemblywoman Simon Speaks Out Against Gun Violence
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caption: 'February 13, 2013<br />"It's very important that people realize this is a public health crisis and much like other public issues, such as tobacco, heart disease, motor vehicle accidents. We need research to demonstrate ways that we can deal with that … that's going to protect people and save lives. And so for example if we didn't research motor vehicle accidents we wouldn't know about the value of seat belts or those medians in the middle of the highway that protect so many people from oncoming traffic. It's really important, those are very  life-saving techniques and they came about through research. We believe that the same is true about gun violence," said Assembymember Jo Anne Simon while explaining her petition to create Firearms Violence Research Institute in the 2018-19 state budget.<br /> ',
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Firearms Violence Research Institute Petition
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caption: 'January 25, 2017<br />Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon questions Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, about the possibility of adding additional bus routes and a new subway tube between Brooklyn and Manhattan to ease commuter congestion while participating in a New York State Assembly and State Senate joint public hearing about the effect of the 2018-2019 Executive Budget Proposal on transportation.<br /> ',
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Brooklyn Needs Additional Transportation Options
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Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE) And Gowanus Expressway
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caption: 'December 12, 2017<br />"You'll have a sense then of how many people have actually been able to maintain that and pass 15 credits worth in their first semester fairly soon," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, Chair of the Subcommittee on Tuition Assistance Program, during an exchange with Mathew Sapienza Sernior Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer of CUNY and Clare Norton University Executive Director of Enrollment Strategy and Management of CUNY, at a public hearing held by the Higher Education Committee to examine the implementation of the scholarship programs included in the 2017-18 State Budget, the Excelsior Scholarship and the Enhanced Tuition Awards Program, and to examine the impact they are having on New York State families and institutions of higher education. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/publichearing/20171114a.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br /> ',
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Simon Questions About College Credits
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Higher Education Act's Impact on Independent Colleges
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Implementation of the State Budget on the Judiciary
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caption: 'December 1, 2017<br />"I think veterans and immigrant students are often impaired by that –immigrant students have less access to student loans, but I'm curious whether you've seen that?" asked Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, Chair of the Subcommittee on Tuition Assistance Program, questioning Raun Rasmussen, Executive Director of Legal Services NYC about student debt issues during the public hearing held by the Assembly Standing Committee on Judiciary to examine the impact of the 2017-2018 enacted state budget on the judiciary and the administration of justice in New York. <a href=\"http://assembly.state.ny.us/dl/user/cis/HRBUDGETJUDICIARY12-1-17.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br /> ',
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Veteran and Immigrant Student Loan Programs
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caption: 'November 28, 2017<br />"I'm also very concerned that we don't have enough of the right trained staff to handle the cyber structure that we need now, and how do we go about replacing that or developing the professionals that we have currently to keep them updated?" asked Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, questioning the Co-Executive Director of the New York State Board of Elections, Robert A. Brehm, at a public hearing held to examine the condition of the State's election infrastructure and take testimony with regard to protecting the integrity of election systems against cyber-infiltration or attack. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/publichearing/20171102a.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br />Â ',
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Protecting the Integrity of New York State's Election Systems
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caption: 'November 20, 2017<br />"I'm troubled by the number of for-profit nursing homes in our state… and the lack of transparency and I'm curious whether, from the data that you have, whether there's any indication that the care is better or worse," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon to Staff Attorney Lindsay Heckler of the Center for Elder Law and Justice and Executive Director Richard Mollot of the Long Term Care Community Coalition at a public hearing on nursing home quality of care, patient safety and enforcement. <a href=\"http://assembly.state.ny.us/write/upload/publichearing/20171020a.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br /> ',
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Ensuring Safe Nursing Homes for Our Seniors
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Increased Staffing in Nursing Homes
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caption: 'November 20, 2017<br />"Your first recommendation is a rotating ten member panel of regular folks with direct access to the legislators on nursing home advisements... how do you see this operating?" asked Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, questioning Sandy Reiburn of Friends of Prospect Park Residents at a public hearing on the quality of care in nursing homes. <a href=\"http://assembly.state.ny.us/write/upload/publichearing/20171020a.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br />Â ',
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Quality of Care in Nursing Homes Public Hearing
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caption: 'September 19, 2017<br />"One of the concerns I have is what happens to people when these facilities close," said Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon to Lisa Newcomb, the Executive Director of the Empire State Association of Assisted Living, at a public hearing to examine the safety and quality of adult care facilities, including the enforcement of health and safety standards, privacy of residents and residents' access to supportive and social services, health care, meals, and transportation.<br />Â ',
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Protecting Patients and Families During Senior Home Closures
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caption: 'June 21, 2017<br />"My district is the first neighborhood slow zone in Brooklyn, it has made an enormous difference but it's not enough," said Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon as she explained her support of bill A07798 that seeks to expand the photo speed violation monitoring systems program for school speed zones in the City of New York. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=7798&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A07798</a><br /><br />Â ',
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Speed Cameras in School Zones
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Introduction of NYPD Capt. Lavonda Wise & FDNY Firefighter Jackie-Michelle Martinez
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caption: 'June 13, 2017<br />"This informs schools that they will be able to do so (use the term dyslexia and other related terms) and create a guidance memorandum for the State Education Department to communicate to schools how to do so effectively," said author of the bill  Assembly Member Simon, as she explained her support for the bill to inform school districts about the unique educational needs of students with dyslexia and other related disorders. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=8262&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A8262</a><br /> ',
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Unique Educational Needs of Students with Dyslexia
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caption: 'June 7, 2017<br />"We need to root this out, we need to address this problem where it is… it is critically important that we do the right thing by the victims here and that we hold people accountable," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon in support of legislation extending the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against a child. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=5885a&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.5885A</a><br /> ',
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Tuition Assistance Program Awards for Transfer Students
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caption: 'May 2, 2017<br />"We are looking to reduce deaths, we are looking to reduce injuries due to gun violence. Until we look at this dispassionately we will not understand why it happens, how it happens, and where it happens," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, speaking at a New Yorker's Against Gun Violence press conference in Albany.<br /> ',
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New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Press Conference
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NYAGV Rally
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Adopting Children with Special Needs
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Standing With New York Families, Educators
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Building with the Mobility Impaired in Mind
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Expanding Access to Higher Education
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Welcome to the Assembly
