The phrase "amendment to the draft" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a change or modification proposed to a preliminary version of a document or legislation.
Example: "The committee submitted an amendment to the draft to clarify the language regarding funding."
Alternatives: "revision to the draft" or "modification of the draft".
All bills must be approved by both houses before they become law; thus, whenever one house introduces an amendment to the draft approved by the other house, the latter must approve the amended draft.
He defended the addition of the amendment to the draft bill: "[the peers] made changes to our proposal which was then tabled by them, debated fully in the House of Lords, before being agreed and made part of the bill".
The process was to be carried out by a nine-person commission, on which no single party or parliamentary group was to dominate.However, amid acrimonious political exchanges on the contents of the draft law, and under the intense gaze of the local press, a late amendment to the draft was proposed by Tatyana Doncheva of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in November 2006.
The response added: "The government is happy to respond directly to the primary concern raised in the consultation and is making an amendment to the draft regulations which would prevent profit-making bodies from carrying out the additional delegable functions on behalf of local authorities".
The new measure is an amendment to the draft public health law, which is currently being discussed by deputies in the National Assembly — the lower house of French parliament.
Yahoo reports Republican delegates unanimously voted to add an amendment to the draft of their platform they plan to present at the Republican National Convention next week deeming pornography a "public health crisis".
Jordan had proposed three amendments to the draft of that resolution, which gave it much-needed precision.
However, the central government said that it has formulated amendments to the draft resolution to be presented to the United Nations human rights panel.
After the troika envoys suggest amendments to the draft budget and issue their next economic review next month, the budget will go to a vote in the Greek Parliament.
He also stressed that Belarus did not agree with Russia's amendments to the draft plan for the Russia-Belarus Union.
The government's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a statement that "the cabinet has agreed unanimously that the necessary amendments to the draft could make it nationally acceptable".
