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S4389 • 2025

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

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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Sponsor
Rachel May
Last action
2026-05-11
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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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

Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility 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.

What This Bill Does

  • Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility 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 History

  1. 2026-05-11 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-05-11 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-05-11 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES

  4. 2026-04-27 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-04-22 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-04-21 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.801

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

  10. 2025-04-09 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  11. 2025-04-09 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  12. 2025-04-09 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES

  13. 2025-03-27 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  14. 2025-03-26 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  15. 2025-03-25 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.616

  16. 2025-02-04 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4389

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    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