---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to disabilities of members of the uniformed force of sanitation departments in certain cities"
description: "Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 4824"
citation: "New York S 4824 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Jackson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7308db4c-2a81-4270-aa80-436bb6f8e869"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4824"
source_hash: "0ecd5b4a75fc22a86b7cb49b972ebde65c4f99f80fb0d38ca11c60e1b489132d"
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 4824 (2025-2026) — Relates to disabilities of members of the uniformed force of sanitation departments in certain cities

Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S4824** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4824&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S4824A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S4824A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **143–2** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote - Version: A — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Local Government Vote - Version: A — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Jackson — primary (person)
- Monica Martinez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-13** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** PRINT NUMBER 4824A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-29** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1978
- **2025-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-13** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1847A
- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.773
- **2025-06-16** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.693 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7308db4c-2a81-4270-aa80-436bb6f8e869`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).