And several Congressional efforts to require schools to install filter programs failed to pass in the last session.

Legislators also agreed to work toward a bill that could be passed in the next regular legislative session.

Similar bills have been introduced in Congress before, but none passed both houses in the same session.

Even so, the bill seems likely to pass, with some modifications, in the next legislative session.

That would not be until November 2006, because the amendment must be passed again in the 2005-6 legislative session.

The bill, which provides no new funding, has only a dim chance of passing in the next session.

The amended budget and the economic incentives bills both passed in the 10-day session.

The law was passed in the last legislative session, before the attack on the Brooklyn woman.

Yesterday was the last day the governor could sign bills passed in the legislative session that ended on Jan. 11.