Assembly Bill A6845

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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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Current Bill Status Via S6162 - Passed Assembly

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A6845 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6162
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §840, Exec L

2023-A6845 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-A6845 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6845
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
   2-C. RULES AND/OR REGULATIONS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  TWO
 OF  THIS  SECTION  RELATING TO COLOR VISION REQUIREMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS
 ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT AS POLICE OFFICERS SHALL BE  TAILORED  TO  ONLY
 ELIMINATE  INDIVIDUALS  WITH EXTREME COLOR VISION DEFICIENCIES FROM SUCH
 ELIGIBILITY. A POLICE OFFICER OR APPLICANT WHO FAILS TO MEET AN  INITIAL
 COLOR  VISION STANDARD SHALL BE DEEMED TO MEET SUCH STANDARD UPON DEMON-
 STRATING THAT THEY CAN CORRECTLY DISCRIMINATE COLORS VIA  A  FIELD  TEST
 APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL AND CONDUCTED BY THE COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE
 OR  POLICE  DISTRICT.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM
 "EXTREME COLOR VISION DEFICIENCIES" SHALL MEAN EXTREME ANOMALOUS  TRICH-
 ROMATISM  OR  MONOCHROMACY  COLOR  VISION, AS DETERMINED THROUGH TESTING
 APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL, WHICH MAY INCLUDE A FARNSWORTH DICHOTOMOUS D-15
 TEST OR ANY OTHER TEST DESIGNED AND DOCUMENTED TO IDENTIFY EXTREME ANOM-
 ALOUS TRICHROMATIC, DICHROMATIC OR MONOCHROMATIC COLOR VISION.
   § 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

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