New York S 4389: Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility

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S04389 Summary:

BILL NOS04389 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMAY

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COSPNSRROLISON, SKOUFIS, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §840, Exec L

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Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility; provides methods under which an individual can meet such requirements after failing to meet an initial color vision standard.

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BILL NOS04389 

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO CODES

03/25/20251ST REPORT CAL.616

03/26/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/09/2025PASSED SENATE

04/09/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/09/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.801

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/11/2026PASSED SENATE

05/11/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/11/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4389

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to ensuring that color
 vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to
 only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from
 eligibility

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
 3 2-c. Rules and/or regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision two
 4 of this section relating to color vision requirements for individuals
 5 eligible for appointment as police officers shall be tailored to only
 6 eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from such
 7 eligibility. A police officer or applicant who fails to meet an initial
 8 color vision standard shall be deemed to meet such standard upon demon-
 9 strating that they can correctly discriminate colors via a field test
 10 approved by the council and conducted by the county, city, town, village
 11 or police district. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term
 12 "extreme color vision deficiencies" shall mean extreme anomalous trich-
 13 romatism or monochromacy color vision, as determined through testing
 14 approved by the council, which may include a Farnsworth Dichotomous D-15
 15 Test or any other test designed and documented to identify extreme anom-
 16 alous trichromatic, dichromatic or monochromatic color vision.
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04791-01-5

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