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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:06PM (#44092117)
https://veeto.ai

A tool that scans California legislation and flags bills that might affect your startup. You drop in a link to your website or a short description, and it returns plain-English summaries and impact analysis of relevant bills.

Hey, thanks. That makes sense - we'll change the copy.

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https://www.veeto.ai/

Hey HN! We built Veeto to help small teams find California bills that could impact their startup. Describe what you're building (or link to your site) and we’ll flag relevant legislation with plain-English summaries.The goal is to help small teams discover policy risks and opportunities earlier and, if they want, do something to influence outcomes.We’re curious if something like this is useful,...

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According to the assembly rules (if I am understanding them correctly), amendments like that are considered out of order and can be shot down with a majority vote:

"92. An amendment to any bill, other than a bill stating legislative intent to make necessary statutory changes to implement the Budget Bill, whether reported by a committee or offered by a Member, is not in order when the amendment relates to a different subject than, is intended to accomplish a different purpose than, or requires a title essentially different than, the original bill."

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/rules/assembly_rules.pdf

That being said, it seems that typically nobody in the legislature ever cares to challenge it. I saw it happen for another bill this session too (an AI bill that became something about commercial fishing).