"legislative overhaul" is an appropriate term for written English and can be used to describe the process of revising or changing legislation.
For example, "The governor proposed a legislative overhaul of the taxation system to provide relief to families affected by the recession."
A major legislative overhaul began to take shape last year.
José Manuel Campa, Spain's deputy finance minister, played down the likelihood of an additional legislative overhaul for the cajas.
In order for law enforcement to successfully use the S-6 visa program and to encourage the trust of and cooperation from informants, legislative overhaul is needed.
But a legislative overhaul under way in the last parliament to make procedures more effective has stalled.Worse, more recent legislative proposals may even make the Mafia's life easier.
There will be little appetite for a giant legislative overhaul, coming on top of America's Dodd-Frank act and Britain's Vickers commission.
Mr. Duncan and a White House official said that despite the Republican takeover of the House, they still hoped the blueprint would guide the legislative overhaul.
Freedom of information laws, recent legislative overhauls demanding more accountability from state governments and an increasingly technologically engaged society have been more successful at preventing murky finances from going unquestioned.
The Department of Employment Services, the agency overseeing the paid leave program, issued a report this month laying out a timeline for paying out benefits by 2020, warning that legislative overhauls could lead to delays.
But many researchers say the most important force in driving down the trial rate has been state and federal legislative overhauls that imposed mandatory sentences and other harsher and more certain penalties for many felonies, especially those involving guns, drugs, violent crimes and repeat offenders.
Given Obama's treatment of health care and climate change as equivalent dangers to the American economy, and given that massive legislative overhauls are the advocated response, the SEC's decision to step out publicly on climate change and remain silent on health care is puzzling.
Mr. McConnell said Republicans would move on to their next big legislative goal: overhauling the tax code, a feat that has not been accomplished since 1986.
