---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to pre-term labor care and providing pre-term labor patients with information regarding the potential health effects of pre-term labor and pre-term delivery; repealer"
description: "Provides for pre-term labor care and directing 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: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 1303"
citation: "New York S 1303 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SALAZAR"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d23abd9-2191-4e41-9bb7-d810068af792"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S1303"
source_hash: "4aef5c0c48d2c49b7af60eb3a9babcf95a835d22758957a8b9dbfb9f502a0b48"
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 1303 (2021-2022) — Relates to pre-term labor care and providing pre-term labor patients with information regarding the potential health effects of pre-term labor and pre-term delivery; repealer

Provides for pre-term labor care and directing 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. **S1303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1303&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **150–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- SALAZAR — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.74
- **2021-01-26** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-01-26** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-01-26** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1254
- **2021-02-01** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.48
- **2021-02-01** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-02-01** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-16** SIGNED CHAP.66 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d23abd9-2191-4e41-9bb7-d810068af792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).