---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to accreditation, approval, and operation of midwifery birth centers"
description: "Relates to accreditation, approval, and operation of midwifery birth centers; adds life safety codes or applicable other building standards to the considerations the commissioner shall consider when approving certificates of incorporation; extends the effective date to 180 days after it shall have become a law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 7835"
citation: "New York S 7835 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["RIVERA"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d554e6ff-4fc9-4c2e-ad48-84ba529220cd"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7835"
source_hash: "2ca33da45c022684c2e12aaf3b6ed30e092070ddf1d47eb038f2063cfd3f9de0"
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 7835 (2021-2022) — Relates to accreditation, approval, and operation of midwifery birth centers

Relates to accreditation, approval, and operation of midwifery birth centers; adds life safety codes or applicable other building standards to the considerations the commissioner shall consider when approving certificates of incorporation; extends the effective date to 180 days after it shall have become a law.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7835** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7835&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- RIVERA — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.193
- **2022-01-26** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-01-26** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-01-26** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8835
- **2022-01-31** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.352
- **2022-01-31** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-01-31** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-02-24** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-24** SIGNED CHAP.127 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d554e6ff-4fc9-4c2e-ad48-84ba529220cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).