Revival of Bills Hinges on Election Outcome : Congress: Issues such as a balanced budget amendment are likely to return. Others such as family leave will resurface only if Clinton wins.

Far more legislation than usual was consigned to the congressional boneyard this year as the Democratic-controlled Senate and House lost 35 veto battles with President Bush and enacted only one law over his objections.

In addition, some measures pushed hard by the White House were narrowly defeated and Democratic leaders allowed other bills to languish because they lacked enough support.

As a result, the new Congress is likely to revisit many bills with their chances for enactment hinging largely on who wins the White House--Bush or Democrat Bill Clinton.

While Democrats are expected to retain control of both chambers after Nov. 3, the size of their majorities and the ideological make-up of the new Congress also will determine what legislation is resurrected.

No matter what the election outcome is, however, some bipartisan perennials--such as an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget--are likely to emerge again after failing by a narrow margin this year.

Republican leaders already plan to force another vote on the controversial amendment in the House next year. Prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.

Both Democrats and Republicans will renew efforts to pass anti-crime legislation, aid to local schools and a popular proposal to impose a five-day waiting period on the purchase of handguns.

In addition, both parties plan to advance health care proposals, even though yearlong efforts by Democrats to devise a plan failed to produce a consensus in either the House or Senate. If he is reelected, Bush could be expected to renew his own health care proposal.

If Clinton is victorious, however, the 103rd Congress is likely to churn out immediately a dozen or more bills that were victims of Bush’s veto ax but already have the Arkansas governor’s support.

Both the House and Senate, for example, are poised to adopt legislation that would require large firms to grant employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for childbirth, illness or other emergencies. Bush vetoed family leave bills twice and Congress was unable to override him; Clinton, however, has promised to approve such a bill if elected.

A Democratic Congress also would be likely next year to respond quickly to a Clinton proposal to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans. Bush vetoed such a measure last spring, complaining that it would be offset by higher taxes on upper-income earners.

Similarly, the President blocked reauthorization of the National Institutes of Health, with increased research on women’s diseases, because of his opposition to research using fetal tissue from abortions. Clinton would have signed fetal tissue legislation, proponents of the measure said.

A Clinton victory would revive Democratic proposals to set spending limits for congressional campaigns and pass “motor voter” legislation to require states to allow voters to register when they obtain driver’s licenses or welfare benefits. Both measures were vetoed by Bush.

Another subject sure to be resurrected next year if Clinton moves to the White House is U.S. policy toward China. Democrats, joined by many Republicans, tried without success to overcome Bush vetoes and insist that China improve its record on human rights, trade restrictions and weapons proliferation to keep its most-favored-nation tariff preferences.

On defense, a Democrat in the White House may decide to reduce outlays for the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as “Star Wars,” and make other reductions in Pentagon spending.

Bush’s reelection, however, again would likely thwart most of the measures that he vetoed. And, if Republicans also gain seats in the Senate and House, the President might be able to form ideological majorities across party lines to get some of his programs enacted.