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Home/Bills/S 4389New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
Senate BillPassed first houseEXC

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; provides methods under which an individual can meet such requirements after failing to meet an initial color vision standard.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 13, 2026

What S 4389 does, verified May 13, 2026

The bill aims to amend the executive law to ensure that color vision requirements for police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility. Currently, police officers are required to meet a certain color vision standard, but the bill proposes to allow individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies to pass by demonstrating their ability to correctly discriminate colors via a field test approved by the council. The term "extreme color vision deficiencies" refers to conditions such as anomalous trichromatism or monochromacy, as determined through testing approved by the council. The bill takes effect immediately, allowing police departments to reassess their color vision requirements and potentially include individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies in their officer recruitment processes.

Bill journey
✓IntroducedComplete
✓In CommitteeComplete
✓First Chamber FloorComplete
4Second ChamberCurrent
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to governmental employees (2026-05-11)Alert me
Quick answers about S 4389
What is the current status of S 4389?
As of May 13, 2026, S 4389 is recorded as "Passed first house": it has passed the chamber it started in and is now before the second chamber. The last recorded action, on May 11, 2026, was "referred to governmental employees".
Did S 4389 pass?
Not yet. S 4389 has passed its house of origin and is now before the second chamber, where it needs committee approval and a floor vote.
Who wrote S 4389, and where is it now?
S 4389 was authored by Sen. Rachel May with 3 coauthors. Its committee of record is Assembly Governmental Employees. It is filed under EXC, alongside 143 other New York EXC bills this session.
Author and sponsors
Sen. Rachel MayAuthor · New York State Senate
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Coauthors
Rob RolisonLea WebbJames Skoufis
Recent actions16 total · showing 5
May. 11, 2026referred to governmental employees
May. 11, 2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
May. 11, 2026PASSED SENATE
Apr. 27, 2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Apr. 22, 20262ND REPORT CAL.
Full action history, 11 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 304 words
  
  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
Text of S 4389 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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