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Diana Loya Democrat

Texas House, District 87

About this race: 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 Diana Loya’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 87 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 · 1 of 1 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.

  • 2026-09-28 questionnaire — Chose "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal hemp marketplace and answered that regulation is preferable to prohibition, with the detail of what the answer would regulate, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Questionnaire2026-09-28

    Said Texas should regulate lawful hemp products rather than eliminate the industry, 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. The council prints the name as "Diana loya"; this guide uses the spelling on the Secretary of State’s certified list.

    Asked about the future of hemp in Texas, the answer was, in full: "I support a legal, well-regulated Texas hemp industry that protects consumers, respects responsible businesses, and keeps unsafe products away from minors. The state should establish clear licensing, age restrictions, independent testing, accurate labeling, child-resistant packaging, and reasonable product standards, with strong enforcement against contaminated, mislabeled, or illicit products.

    Significant policy changes should come through the Legislature, with agencies implementing the law within clearly defined authority. Texas should regulate lawful hemp products responsibly rather than eliminate an industry that can operate safely under strong standards." Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom and with what safeguards: "THC products should be sold only by licensed, regulated businesses to adults age 21 and older, with separate rules for qualified medical patients.

    Products should be subject to clear potency limits, independent testing, accurate labeling, child-resistant packaging, and restrictions on marketing to minors. Permitted forms should be based on safety and evidence, with strong enforcement against contaminated, mislabeled, or unlicensed products." 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 retail regulation, "Reasonable statewide licensing/registration".

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

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 90317, filed as “Loya, Diana”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 87, dated 2025-11-14.

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 90317. 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 Diana Loya 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.