The phrase "amendment that says" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific part of an amendment in legal or formal contexts, particularly when discussing its content or implications.
Example: "The amendment that says all citizens have the right to vote is fundamental to our democracy."
Alternatives: "provision that states" or "clause that indicates".
"I think any kind of amendment that says 'You shall not' will help," Mr. Waters said.
President Bush would tap into the vast, sensible middle in American political opinion by supporting the kind of constitutional amendment that says just that.
In the US, we have a first amendment that says nothing about having to be over a certain age to enjoy the right to free speech.
If we make a constitutional amendment that says marriage is between a man and a woman, what stops a court from saying that means a man can marry his sister, thereby making incest legal?
"They'll have to stand on the floor and offer an amendment that says we want to take $1.3 billion from something else we need," a Democratic Senate aide said.
Mark Isherwood moves the Conservative amendment that says that "successive UK governments have communicated with affected women since the changes to women's pension ages since the Pensions Act 1995 and Pensions Act 2007 and that a public consultation exercise and extensive debates were undertaken in Parliament in relation to additional increases to the state pension age in 2011".
It included an amendment that said teachers "have no confidence in the education policies of the coalition government".
But as a congressman he voted for an amendment that said that abortion "takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being".
She subsequently voted for an amendment that said no school could deny equal access to any youth group, including the Boy Scouts, that received certain financing.
Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, offered an amendment that said nothing in the bill would result in a reduction of "guaranteed benefits" under Medicare.
But two years later, after white couples said they were still being denied the opportunity to adopt minority children, Congress passed an amendment that said race could not be used as a criterion.
