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.
- 2022-01-20 statement — Stated support for expanding medical use and for decriminalisation, alongside stated opposition to full legalisation. Expansive but short of adult use, counted as +1 at weight 1.2
- 2015-05-07 Texas Compassionate Use Act SB 339 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 0.9
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 1. Full method and the bill table.
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Vote2015-05-07
Texas Senate: recorded Yea, and named in the printed Yeas roll, on third-reading passage of CSSB 339, the bill that created the Texas Compassionate-Use Program for low-THC cannabis, which carried 26 Yeas to 5 Nays. The Senate had passed the bill to engrossment earlier the same day by a viva voce vote in which every member was deemed to have voted Yea except five named Nays.
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Vote2015-05-07
Texas Senate: recorded Yea, and named in the printed Yeas roll, on the motion to suspend Senate Rule 7.18 and the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, so that CSSB 339 could be placed on its third reading and final passage the same day; CSSB 339 is the bill that created the Texas Compassionate-Use Program for low-THC cannabis. The motion, made by Senator Eltife, prevailed 26 Yeas to 5 Nays.
This is a procedural vote; the third-reading passage that followed it is listed separately.
WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site does not score procedural motions, such as suspending a rule, postponing, recommitting or reconsidering, because such a motion decides how a bill is handled rather than what it does, and its scoring rules read this record as one.
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Said2022-01-20
At a Republican gubernatorial forum in College Station, asked his position on marijuana in Texas, he said he was against the full legalization of marijuana and that "I am for expanding the medical use of marijuana, and I am for the decriminalization of the laws", adding that he was for equal enforcement of the laws around the state of Texas. The article is dated 2022-01-20 and reports a forum held the previous evening.