---
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).