61.   The legislation has the active support of high-technology companies, the venture capital community, accounting firms and brokerages.

62.   The legislation has two central long-term goals.

63.   The legislation will have bipartisan backing and will not require states to follow a federal mandate, but will encourage them to do so, Schoemaker said.

64.   The money-laundering legislation has provisions, long opposed by bankers, that law enforcement authorities have sought to use against organized crime and drug traffickers.

65.   The legislation had a handful of sponsors.

66.   The new legislation had little difficulty getting through the state Legislature.

67.   The narrower the class burdened by retroactive legislation, the greater the danger that the legislation has the characteristics of a bill of attainder.

68.   The legislation also has the support of health care worker unions, nurses associations, the American Hospital Association and needle manufacturers.

69.   The legislation has a good chance of becoming law.

70.   The legislation has some strong Democratic supporters, including Sen. Charles Schumer of New York.