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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4389
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2025
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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.
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