Amendment
Amendment is the easiest way to get accurate, up-to-date, plain-English legal explanations & comparisons across U.S. states or municipalities.
No more digging through thousands of municode sites or deciphering statutory language. Amendment turns complex, multi-jurisdiction policy research into a simple conversation. No sales call or demo required, use it right now.
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Texas has comprehensive environmental regulations for manufacturing facilities, overseen primarily by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), with some areas of jurisdiction shared with other agencies like the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC). Texas environmental regulations for manufacturing cover several key areas:
Air Quality
Fifty-State Comparisons
As of 2025, many states have legalized medical marijuana use, while fewer have legalized recreational use. Regulations typically include possession limits, licensing requirements for dispensaries, and restrictions on public consumption. Some states maintain full prohibition of marijuana.
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The city of Chicago has established a tiered licensing fee structure for short-term rental intermediaries (like Airbnb) based on the number of listings:
1,000 or more listings
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We cover more capitols than Steve Kornacki on election night.
How we compare to ChatGPT, Claude, or any general purpose tools.
| Amendment | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Data Quality | Proprietary legal database continuously updated from primary sources. | Scrapes the web to fetch data that might be wrong, years old, or both. |
| Accuracy & Reliability | Zero hallucinations. Only references real statutes, regulations, & current legislation. | Makes up citations, cases, or laws that don’t exist. |
| Consistency | Answers the same way every time. | Answers to the same legal questions can vary depending on input, time of day, and how Mercury is moving. |
| Honesty | Tells you if the answer or information you want isn’t available. | General-purpose chatbot designed to make you happy. |
| Support | A small team that wants to hear from you and build what you need. | Wants to replace you with AGI. |
We love front-end tools, not back room deals.
Amendment started with a simple frustration: a lobbyist friend had to look up land dedication formulas for every city in Texas. That’s about 1,200 cities—not fun. We’re a team of software developers that have been building civic technology since 2010, and we got to work.
As we dug in, we heard the same thing from other state policy professionals. You can try to decipher raw municipal code underneath layers of state & federal regulations, or buy expensive software from last century. The laws that govern all of us shouldn’t be inaccessible. So we built our own legal database and AI from the ground up. No outdated sources, no hallucinations, only current law and legislation direct from the source.
Give us a try, or tell us what you need, and you’ll be supporting a team working to disrupt the incumbents and democratize understanding of the law.
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