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Brittany Black Democrat

Texas House, District 61

About this race: A district in the northern suburbs of Dallas-Fort Worth. The sitting member's recorded 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 Brittany Black’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 House, District 61 race page.

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100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 thin — one or two records produced this number · 2 of 2 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.

  • 2026-09-22 questionnaire — Answered "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace and wrote that Texas should regulate rather than treat responsible businesses and adult consumers as criminals, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-02-03 questionnaire — Called for decriminalising possession, regulating and taxing cannabis similarly to alcohol, expunging past convictions and establishing clear medical access. That is support for lawful adult access, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Questionnaire2026-02-03

    Answered the Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire in its 2026 voter guide. The paper asked every candidate in the race: "How do you think the president’s executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will affect THC regulation in Texas?" The answer given was: "Federal reclassification creates an opportunity for Texas to establish a coherent, evidence-based approach. We should decriminalize possession to stop wasting law enforcement resources on nonviolent offenses, regulate and tax cannabis similarly to alcohol to generate revenue and ensure safety, expunge records for past marijuana convictions that have devastated communities, establish clear medical cannabis access for patients who need it, and set reasonable THC limits based on public health data.

    The current patchwork is failing—it’s time for smart policy over ideology."

    dallasnews.com, dallasnews.com

  • Questionnaire2026-09-22

    Said she supports "a legal, responsibly regulated hemp industry in Texas", 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: "I support a legal, responsibly regulated hemp industry in Texas that protects consumers and children while providing clear and predictable rules for farmers and businesses.

    Regulation should be based on credible science and measurable public-health outcomes, not fear or unsupported claims. Texas should require strict age verification, independent product testing, accurate potency and ingredient labeling, child-resistant packaging, appropriate dosage standards, and meaningful enforcement against businesses that sell to minors or offer contaminated, mislabeled, or unlawful products. Responsible businesses that follow the rules should be able to compete in a fair marketplace without excessive fees or unnecessary regulatory barriers.

    As federal law and scientific evidence evolve, Texas should review its framework accordingly. Our goal should be straightforward: protect Texans, hold bad actors accountable, preserve adult choice, and give legitimate Texas farmers and small businesses a fair opportunity to succeed." Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom, at what dose, in what form and subject to what safeguards: "THC-containing products should be sold only by properly licensed or registered businesses to adults 21 and older, with strict age verification.

    Products should be independently tested for potency and contaminants, accurately labeled with THC content and serving information, and sold in tamper-evident, child-resistant packaging that is not designed to appeal to children. Appropriate potency and serving limits should be established using credible scientific and public-health evidence and should account for product type. Texas should enforce these standards consistently and impose meaningful penalties on businesses that sell to minors or sell contaminated, mislabeled, or otherwise unlawful products."

    On keeping a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, the comments read: "I support a legal, well-regulated marketplace that protects consumers and keeps products away from minors. Texas should require appropriate testing, accurate labeling, age restrictions, and meaningful enforcement rather than treating responsible businesses and adult consumers as criminals." 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, "Support"; on retail regulation, "Reasonable statewide licensing/registration"; on tax policy, "Depends on the proposed tax"; 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

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 90364, filed as “Black, Brittany N.”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 61, dated 2025-12-19. 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.

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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 Brittany Black 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.