Newsom said only an initiative, for instance, can amend part of 2014's criminal justice measure, Proposition 47 — a portion that critics say would allow people convicted of theft of a firearm to be charged with a lesser crime than felony grand theft.
Even if the proposal becomes law, the Legislature could always amend parts of it next year.
He apologised for some of his mistakes, and offered to let opponents help amend parts of Egypt's divisive new constitution.
Clegg will be able to claim another win on Tuesday when Cameron agrees that amended parts of the bill will be considered at committee stage in the Commons again.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) is leading calls to amend parts of the bill which it believes will further limit the availability of affordable homes in rural areas.
During a speech in Brussels on Dec. 4, the United States ambassador to the union, William E. Kennard, urged lawmakers to amend parts of the legislation that would require businesses to obtain explicit consent from consumers before collecting and mining data and to remove all traces of personal data from the Internet upon request.
Rear Admiral Donald Guter, who was the Navy's chief JAG until June , 2002 said that he and the other JAGs, who were experts in the laws of war, tried unsuccessfully to amend parts of the military-commission plan when they learned of it, days before the order was formally signed by the President.
Even some of the legislators who supported the bill said they would work to amend parts of it -- in particular a clause mandating that companies affected by the law make public to the county the names and addresses of their workers.
Love was recently involved in an unsuccessful petition to Maryland's legislature to amend parts of the LEOBOR, which lays out the legal rights and protections afforded to officers during misconduct investigations, interrogations, and hearings, or when disciplinary action is initiated.
There are also some elements of the Affordable Care Act a Republican Congress could target, either symbolically to highlight Obamacare's real and perceived shortcomings, or as a means to erase or amend parts of the law they may believe are vulnerable.
