Mr. Solomon is close to the insurance industry, which strongly opposes the provision added on Wednesday.

One was that the Democrats support a provision to add to the 1985 budget-balancing law a new mechanism for making automatic spending cuts.

Overlapping or inconsistent provisions in the tax code have added to the complexity, she said, and made errors on returns more likely.

That provision would add $1.3 billion to New York's budget in the fiscal year that begins April 1.

But supporters said the provision would simply add some teeth to a concept that courts have used for years.

Additional unrelated provisions added an estimated $150 billion to the cost of the package and increased the length of the bill to 451 pages.

Another provision added would set Medicare premiums paid by the elderly higher than they would be without a change in the law.

The social partners who have the existing text do not have to renegotiate it but rather to select the relevant provisions to add to Community law.

Even with those limits, the provision would add about 70,000 families to the rolls at a cost of about $977 million over five years.

In 1983 Irish voters in a referendum added to the Constitution a provision banning abortion.