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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enacts the Jonah Bichotte Cowan law relating to pre-term labor care"
+description: "Enacts the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law; relates to pre-term labor care and directs the commissioner of health to require hospitals to provide pre-term labor patients with information regarding the potential health effects of pre-term labor and pre-term delivery on an expectant mother and on her fetus."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "A 2770"
+citation: "New York A 2770 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["BICHOTTE"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-25"
+last_action: "2020-12-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02290145-a645-4567-a51b-9e300e1b6e0b"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A2770"
+source_hash: "3db88559f807293b6fb629622ca9169444dea39d5db45f76ddda90954cc29ec8"
+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 A 2770 (2019-2020) — Enacts the Jonah Bichotte Cowan law relating to pre-term labor care
+
+Enacts the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law; relates to pre-term labor care and directs the commissioner of health to require hospitals to provide pre-term labor patients with information regarding the potential health effects of pre-term labor and pre-term delivery on an expectant mother and on her fetus.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A2770** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A2770&term=2019&Text=Y)
+2. **A2770A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A2770A)
+3. **A2770B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A2770B)
+4. **A2770C** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A2770C)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote - Version: C — **60–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- BICHOTTE — primary (person)
+- BARRON — cosponsor (person)
+- JEAN-PIERRE — cosponsor (person)
+- OTIS — cosponsor (person)
+- RODRIGUEZ — cosponsor (person)
+- SOLAGES — cosponsor (person)
+- THIELE — cosponsor (person)
+- WALKER — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-25** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-28** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-28** PRINT NUMBER 2770A `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2020-04-15** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-04-15** PRINT NUMBER 2770B `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-05-04** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-05-04** PRINT NUMBER 2770C `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-13** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-20** REPORTED
+- **2020-07-20** RULES REPORT CAL.155
+- **2020-07-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.155
+- **2020-07-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2020-07-20** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2020-07-20** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8525
+- **2020-07-23** 3RD READING CAL.911
+- **2020-07-23** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2020-07-23** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2020-12-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-12-22** SIGNED CHAP.348 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-12-22** APPROVAL MEMO.52
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02290145-a645-4567-a51b-9e300e1b6e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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