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Bobby Tillman Democrat

Texas Senate, District 3

About this race: The sitting senator is not on this ballot. Trent Ashby, the Republican nominee, is a member of the Texas House, and his recorded House votes on the 2025 hemp-THC ban and the Compassionate Use Program expansion are listed below in date order, with their record-vote numbers, as the official journals print them.

Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the race, and part of it describes a different person. Everything after this line on this page is Bobby Tillman’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the Texas Senate, District 3 race page.

Bobby TillmanDemocrat
92/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 moderate — three to five records produced this number · 3 of 3 records scored
How this score is worked out

Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.

  • 2026-10-13 questionnaire — Wrote "It's past time for legalization of cannabis" and argued that legalization would grow the economy and end penalties: support for legal adult access, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-09-20 statement — Campaign platform calling for medical cannabis access for veterans and for elderly and disabled Texans. Medical access, so it scores as a partial rather than an adult-use position, counted as +1 at weight 2
  • 2026-09-08 questionnaire — Answered "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace and wrote that Texas can protect children and consumers without prohibition, unnecessary criminal penalties, or regulations designed to eliminate responsible businesses, counted as +2 at weight 2

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 1.667. Full method and the bill table.

  • Questionnaire2026-09-08

    Said Texas should build a hemp industry rather than destroy it, and that "Regulation—not elimination—is the responsible path forward", in the Texas Hemp Business Council’s 2026 candidate questionnaire. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions to 223 candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office and publishes the answers it receives in full, without editing. These are the candidate’s own words, submitted by the candidate.

    Asked about the future of hemp in Texas, the answer was, in full: "Texas should build a safe, transparent, and economically strong hemp industry—not destroy legitimate small businesses or criminalize responsible adults. I support regulation based on credible science, measurable public-health risks, and honest input from farmers, businesses, consumers, law enforcement, and medical professionals. Intoxicating THC products should be limited to adults 21 and older and sold by licensed, accountable businesses.

    Products should undergo independent testing for potency and contaminants, carry clear dosage labels, use child-resistant packaging, and never be designed or marketed to attract children. Regulations should distinguish intoxicating products from non-intoxicating hemp and preserve appropriate medical access. Major policy decisions belong with the elected Legislature, while agencies should enforce clear rules within their delegated authority.

    Texas can protect children and consumers without prohibition, unnecessary criminal penalties, or regulations designed to eliminate responsible businesses. Regulation—not elimination—is the responsible path forward." Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom, at what dose, in what form and subject to what safeguards: "THC products should be sold only by licensed businesses—including responsible existing hemp retailers—that meet uniform state standards.

    Sales should be limited to adults 21 and older with identification verification. Products should have reasonable, science-based serving and package limits, with lower limits for intoxicating hemp products, while preserving access to properly supervised medical products. All forms should undergo independent laboratory testing for potency, pesticides, heavy metals, solvents, and contaminants. Packaging must be child-resistant and clearly labeled with the THC amount per serving and per package.

    Products designed to imitate children’s candy or marketed toward minors should be prohibited. Texas should regulate THC like a controlled adult product—not eliminate legitimate businesses or criminalize responsible adults." On the questionnaire’s fixed-choice questions: on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, "Strongly Support"; on whether regulation is preferable to prohibition where a product can be made and sold safely, "Yes"; on hemp agriculture, "Strongly Support"; on retail regulation, "Reasonable statewide licensing/registration"; on tax policy, "Yes"; on consumer choice, "Yes".

    The date is the date the council recorded the submission, in Central time.

    texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com

  • Said2026-09-20

    His campaign platform commits, in the Veterans section, to "real mental health access for every veteran, job skills and training programs that lead somewhere, and access to medical cannabis for the veterans who need it." The Healthcare section adds: "Elderly and disabled Texans should have access to medical cannabis."

    ⚠️The page carries no publication date, so 2026-09-20 is the date it was read. A medical-cannabis plank for veterans is absent from the Internet Archive capture of 2025-12-12 and present in captures from 2026-01-22 onward, so the position dates from at least January 2026.

    tillman4texas.com, web.archive.org

  • Questionnaire2026-10-13

    Answered the 2026 candidate survey of the Marijuana Policy Project, a national cannabis-policy advocacy organisation, and the Texas Cannabis Policy Center, whose 2026 Texas Voter Guide prints the written comments of Senate and statewide candidates who replied. The survey asked four questions: whether to expand the Texas medical cannabis program to allow patients cannabis flower; whether limited possession of THC hemp products and up to one ounce of flower should be a civil fine of up to $100; whether cannabis and THC products should be legal to possess for adults 21 and older; and whether a legal, regulated market should be created for adult-use sales.

    The guide prints one written comment from him, after his four answers, spelling as printed: "It's past time for legalization of cannabis, legalization would grow the economy, release our brothers and sisters from undue pentalties and cannabis and help will help rebuild our dying soil. Supply local farmers with income and benefit our health." The guide prints no response dates; the date given is the Last-Modified date the publisher's own server returns for the guide's PDF edition (2026-10-13), the earliest date the answer is documented as published.

    The guide also prints the organisation's own support headings for each candidate; those are its characterisations, not the candidate's words, and are not reproduced here.

    mpp.org

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 90289, filed as “Tillman, Bobby K.”, treasurer appointment for State Senator, District 3, dated 2025-11-07. The name on the filing is not word-for-word the name on the ballot — both are printed above so you can check the pairing yourself before you rely on it.

Why there are no figures and no industry breakdown here. Texas does not require a candidate to report a contributor’s employer or occupation — the Commission’s own 2026 guide asks for the amount, the contributor’s name and address, and the date, and that is all. So there is nothing in these filings to group into industries, and we have built no such grouping rather than imply one. Separately, the Commission’s bulk filing archive tells automated readers to stay out of it, and we honour that, so we have read no individual Texas contribution record. Treat the itemised question as unchecked by us, not as checked and found empty.

Read this filer’s own reports at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter 90289. The Commission’s search posts its results, so there is no direct link to one filer’s page; the number above is what makes it one step instead of a hunt.

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Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive. For what Bobby Tillman has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one, every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves that score by a cent.