Bill Text: NY S06162 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-11-22 - VETOED MEMO.60 [S06162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06162-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6162

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD10540-01-3