Substitute amendment

A substitute amendment kills a bill by replacing it. Such an amendment has been defined as follows:[1]

A motion, amendment, or entire bill introduced in place of the pending legislative business. Passage of a substitute measure kills the original measure by supplanting it. The substitute also may be amended.

Legislative bodies sometimes have special rules regarding this type of amendment. For example, the Continental Congress had a rule stating: "No new motion or proposition shall be admitted under color of amendment as a substitute for a question or proposition under debate until it is postponed or disagreed to."[2]


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References

  1. Chopra, Ramesh. Academic Dictionary Of Political Science, p. 283 (Gyan Books 2005).
  2. Sargent, Noel. "Bills for Raising Revenue Under the Federal and State Constitutions", Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 330 (1919).