The phrase "a legislative amendment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal change or addition proposed to a law or regulation.
Example: "The committee proposed a legislative amendment to improve the existing environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "a law modification" or "a policy change".
The changes will require a legislative amendment.
It also recommended a legislative amendment to end the legal semantics.
What is necessary is a legislative amendment to the present statute and enactment of the appropriate agency.
"Neither a referendum nor a plebiscite presents a legal guarantee that such a legislative amendment will be introduced or indeed passed," the submission said.
In a legislative amendment they proposed in June, Republican Senator Mark Kirk, of Illinois, and Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, of New Jersey, sought to extend the 1996 Iran Sanctions Act, which is due to expire in 2016, to 2026.
Finally, things are often products of events : notes produced by a musician playing an instrument, or a pie baked as part of a contest, or a legislative amendment produced in the course of a committee meeting.
In cases like these it is right to try to identify the individuals involved so as to deny them visas and freeze their assets, as a congressional legislative amendment related to the Magnitsky case proposes.
By his own account, the only serious intervention he made in the House of Commons was to table a tiny legislative amendment that would have revolutionised the western world - if it had been passed.
Those in buildings with four or fewer units that were formerly private homes need not worry; they are protected by a 1990 legislative amendment that places them in the same protected category as one-family houses.
Dating to a 1909 statute designed to balance the rights of composers and the makers of player piano rolls, that law has been applied to phonographs, L.P.'s, cassette tapes, CD's and, with a 1995 legislative amendment, permanent digital downloads.
On June 16, a proposed legislative amendment to prevent US funds from being used "to transfer or authorize the transfer of any cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia" came very close to passing - with 40 Republicans lining up against the measure - by a vote of 204-216.
