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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

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

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 4389 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility. Primary sponsor: Rachel May (Democratic/Working Families). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (May 11, 2026): REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Democratic/Working Families 2 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Rachel MayPrimary sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate48
Rob RolisonCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate39
James SkoufisCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate42
Lea WebbCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate52

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
  2. DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
  3. PASSED SENATE
  4. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
  5. 2ND REPORT CAL.
  6. 1ST REPORT CAL.801
  7. REFERRED TO CODES
  8. RETURNED TO SENATE
  9. DIED IN ASSEMBLY
  10. REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
  11. DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
  12. PASSED SENATE

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source