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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/s-946.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards"
+description: "Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 946"
+citation: "New York S 946 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert Jackson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-12-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5081c4e9-00ef-4830-b111-e7da00976c3e"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S946"
+source_hash: "9b235051d2a73b6c9a3d8f829c387ec437a35e08d3eb5820d70ccdb59600b20e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 946 (2025-2026) — Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards
+
+Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S946** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S946&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **120–27** (pass) · lower
+- Civil Service And Pensions Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert Jackson — primary (person)
+- Anthony H. Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- Cordell Cleare — cosponsor (person)
+- Jake Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Cooney — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-06** 1ST REPORT CAL.947
+- **2025-05-07** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2025-05-08** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-05-28** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-05-28** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR A3295
+- **2025-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.423
+- **2025-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-05** SIGNED CHAP.593 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5081c4e9-00ef-4830-b111-e7da00976c3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+