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Frank Salazar Republican

Texas House, District 143

About this race: East Houston. The incumbent was absent and excused for a committee meeting during the medical-expansion engrossment vote, then voted for the bill, and voted against the hemp-THC ban at both stages.

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 Frank Salazar’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 143 race page.

Frank SalazarRepublican

No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. One limit on that search is recorded with it.

What was checked for Frank Salazar, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: the member-level rolls of every 2025 cannabis and hemp record vote in the official Texas House and Senate Journals — SB 3 and HB 46 in the regular session, SB 5 in the first called session and SB 6 in the second — including every Yea, Nay, present-not-voting, absent and statement-of-vote list, where this name does not appear because they hold no Texas legislative office; the author, joint-author, coauthor and sponsor tables of every cannabis, hemp, THC and Compassionate Use bill filed in the 87th, 88th and 89th Legislatures and the 2025 called sessions, at the Legislature's own bill-lookup service; and a press sweep including the Spectrum News report on the March 2026 Austin candidate forum on THC policy, which quotes six candidates by name and does not include them.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Frank_Salazar, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.

Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/Frank_Salazar (15406 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. When we re-read their Ballotpedia profile on 2026-10-15, it recorded that they had not completed Ballotpedia’s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.

⚠️This card does not tell you whether this candidate held a seat in an earlier Legislature, but the question is now narrower. Read on 2026-10-15, from each chamber’s own journal: the roll of members-elect that the Texas House Journal prints, district by district, on the first day of every regular session from the 75th Legislature (1997) through the 89th (2025), and every senator the Texas Senate Journal names with a district on the first day of every regular session from the 76th (1999) through the 89th.

For the 89th those are journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/pdf/89RDAY01FINAL.PDF and journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM and every journal read is listed on this site’s corrections page. No one by this candidate’s name appears in any of them. That is narrower than a negative answer. Those rolls name the members seated as each session opened, and in most years the Senate’s names the senators who were not up for election by surname alone, so a member who sat only in earlier sessions, who arrived at a special election and was never named in full on a later first day, or who served under another name would not be found this way.

If this candidate is one of those, there may be a cannabis voting record this site is missing.

Also checked on 2026-10-05: the Texas Hemp Business Council’s published 2026 candidate questionnaire roster at texashempbusinesscouncil.com/wp-json/thbc/v1/candidate-responses and texashempbusinesscouncil.com/candidate-responses. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions about hemp and THC policy to 221 named candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office, this candidate among them, and publishes the answers it receives.

On the date checked the council’s own roster recorded this candidate’s status as "awaiting" and carried no answers from them; 30 of the 221 had answered by that date and this candidate was not one of them. The council states that answers are added as they are completed, so this records only what the roster showed on 2026-10-05.

A campaign site of this candidate's own was found on 2026-10-17 at frankforhd143.com — it is the campaign website the League of Women Voters' VOTE411 guide lists for this candidate in House District 143, and the site names them as running for Texas House District 143 — and it was read on that date. What it contains is described in the list below, and it contains no cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.

Until that date this card said that whether this candidate had a campaign site of their own was an open question, because this guide had not found one.

This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, is published in the corrections log.

No score: this candidate has no recorded vote or bill authorship on a cannabis measure. Silence is not a position, so nothing is inferred from it.

Campaign sites and voter guides checked for Frank Salazar

Pages read in full:

  • www.houstonvotersguide.org/state-representative-rep/Frank-Salazar — sections on the page: Qualifications; the two most pressing issues facing the office, with the candidate's own plans for them — the whole of the two-question set the League of Women Voters of Houston chapter put to this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. The page heads itself "State Representative, District 143 - Republican Candidate", so the candidate and the district are both confirmed on it. Neither question asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. ⚠️The entry records "No response recieved" [sic] in place of answers, so this records an unanswered questionnaire, not a position. This address no longer works. The page was there when we read it and the guide has since taken it down, and we did not keep a copy — so this is a record of what we read and not something you can check for yourself, which is weaker than every other source cited on this card. We have left the finding here rather than delete it, and left the address so you can see exactly what we are relying on. We checked the address again on 2026-10-17: it still answers HTTP 404.
  • votetheperson.org/candidates/frank-salazar — sections on the page: Candidate; Your match; Record; Sources — the whole of the independent candidate tracker Vote the Person's page for this candidate, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. The page states the office or district we have on file, so the identification is confirmed, and it cites 3 source(s) of its own. Marijuana is one of the issues it tracks by name, and it lists Marijuana among the 40 issues on which it found no public position for this candidate. ⚠️That is a second organisation reporting an empty search, not a statement by the candidate.
  • www.raiseyourhandtexas.org/public-education-candidate-forums — sections on the page: Raise Your Hand Texas's 2026 public-education candidate-forum listing, which names this candidate's forum, read in full by us on 2026-10-06 (4424 characters of text). It contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
  • www.branch.vote/races/2026-texas-general-election-tx-state-state-representative-tx-state-house-143/candidates/frank-salazar — sections on the page: an aggregator recording three Public Safety items on police investigations and body-camera footage, and that as of 2026-07-22 no website or online information could be found for any other policy area
  • onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71558384 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-17, HTTP 200. The League of Women Voters' VOTE411 voter guide page for the November 2026 general election in Texas House District 143. It names this candidate, and unlike the League of Women Voters of Houston page above, whose address no longer works, it is a page a reader can open: that chapter says on the candidate information page of its own guide that the answers it collects are published on Vote411.org as well as in its own guide. This is the League's four-question set for the general election, not the two-question primary set described above. It asks every candidate in the race about their qualifications for the office; access to affordable healthcare, including mental health services, for residents who are uninsured or underserved; state funding for public schools and accountability for taxpayer funds used in voucher or education savings account programs; and the two most pressing issues unique to the district. None of the four questions mentions cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered all four questions, and no answer of theirs, nor anything else the page prints for them, contains, on a word boundary, cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, drug or drugs. The primary-season page above recorded no response from them; this general-election questionnaire carries their answers. The page lists FrankforHD143.com as their campaign website, which is the site listed below.
  • frankforhd143.com their own site — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-17, HTTP 200. This candidate's own campaign site. It is one page long: its sitemap is empty and the home page links to no other page on the site. It is the campaign website the League of Women Voters' VOTE411 guide lists for this candidate, and the site itself names them as running for Texas House District 143, so it is attributable to them. It sets out twenty campaign issues with a position on each, and none of the twenty is cannabis. Not one word of the page matches, on a word boundary, cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325, HB 46, drug or drugs. The nearest subject is its public-health item, which promises support for addiction services without naming any substance.

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

We could not match a Commission filer number to this name. The Commission’s list of candidates who have appointed a campaign treasurer carried no single row matching both the surname and the given name on the ballot for this seat, so none was guessed at. Frank Salazar may have filed under a different form of their name.

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.

Search campaign filings at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions” and search by name.

Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.

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 Frank Salazar 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.