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Katy Padilla Stout Democrat

US House, District 23

About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Edwards, Frio, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Kinney, Loving, Medina, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Winkler and Zavala counties, most of Maverick County, most of El Paso County and part of north-west Bexar County. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in a 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. What each candidate has said or answered is listed on the race page in date order, each with its own source.

Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the race, not about this candidate in particular. Everything after this line on this page is Katy Padilla Stout’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. No cannabis record is listed on this page for Katy Padilla Stout, so where the paragraph above points at records, it is pointed at the race page and not at this one. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the US House, District 23 race page.

Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the 120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by population — 99.9% of it was inside district 23 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026. These lines barely moved, so the member who holds seat 23 today was elected over almost exactly this ground. Check your own address in the district finder.

Katy Padilla StoutDemocrat

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 Katy Padilla Stout, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: their campaign site, two national endorsement-organisation profiles, a San Antonio Report profile, a public radio interview page and a candidate questionnaire service.

Also checked: the Spectrum News report of 2026-03-03 on Texas candidates and THC policy, the only outlet that put the question directly to 2026 congressional candidates, which does not quote them; and NORML’s Texas guide, which covers sitting members of Congress only. We also checked the full membership roll of the 89th Texas Legislature: this candidate is not a member, so there is no state roll call to attribute.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Katy_Padilla_Stout, 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/Katy_Padilla_Stout (16146 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 2026-10-16, 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, and read in full on 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at www.katyforcongress.com — 30 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 52,432 characters of text in all. The site identifies itself as the campaign of Katy Padilla Stout for Congress and names TX-23. The extracted text of those pages contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, Compassionate Use, delta-8, delta-9, dispensary, decriminalize, cannabinoid or psilocybin.

This card has been corrected. What an earlier version of it said, and what was wrong with it, 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 Katy Padilla Stout

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25682690 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Priorities; Health Care; Immigration; Energy; Economy; Artificial Intelligence — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer of theirs 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, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46. 1 other local chapter(s) publish the same race; the fullest entry is the one cited here.
  • www.katyforcongress.com their own site — sections on the page: the whole of this candidate's own campaign site as this guide read it — 30 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 52,432 characters of text in all. This row was built on 2026-10-12 out of the sentence above it in this card's own search log, which named the address and said it had been read while the list beside it did not. It records no reading that the log had not already published. Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 26 pages read at HTTP 200 (the homepage, the site’s sitemaps, every page it links to one level down, and the pages under its issues and news sections); 1 at HTTP 500 could not be read. No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, rescheduling, Schedule iii, safer Banking or decriminalisation term on a word boundary in the text or the raw page source of any page read. The same crawler, run the same day from each homepage, found the published cannabis planks on three campaign sites used as controls.
  • kvia.com/voter-guide-2026/u-s-representative-texas-district-23/2026/10/06/katy-padilla-stout-candidate-for-texas-congressional-district-23-representative — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-17, HTTP 200. KVIA ABC-7’s 2026 voter-guide entry for this candidate, headed Katy Padilla Stout (D), candidate for Texas Congressional District 23 representative, published 2026-10-06. It carries no answers: an editor’s note says the station sent her a questionnaire and is waiting for her response, and the entry lists only her name, party and occupation. The page contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
  • sanantonioreport.org/profile/katy-padilla-stout-2026-candidate-for-texas-23rd-congressional-district — sections on the page: The San Antonio Report’s candidate profile, first published 2026-01-08 and last updated 2026-10-08, including its "Hear from the candidate" section of the candidate’s own answers, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or THC, and no answer of theirs contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
  • www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-10-14/herrera-and-padilla-stout-clash-over-guns-border-security-and-character-in-heated-texas-23rd-cd-debate — sections on the page: A Texas Public Radio written report of the Texas 23rd Congressional District candidates’ debate, published 2026-10-14, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.

See the whole US House, District 23 race, including every opponent →

Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission

Commission candidate H6TX23273, filed as “STOUT, KATY PADILLA”, principal committee C00926121 (KATY PADILLA STOUT FOR CONGRESS). fec.gov

Everything below covers the reporting period that ended 2026-06-30, as filed with the Commission. These figures lag the filing deadlines: money raised after that date does not appear until the next report is due, so a recent contribution is not missing, it is not yet reportable.

What we could and could not put a label on

Fraction classified: 0%. We examined $294,681 — the 97 largest employer groupings ($119,900) and 14 committee contributions ($174,781) the Commission shows for this committee — and matched $0 of it to one of our own patterns. $294,681 is listed above as unclassified.

What that figure is not. $294,681 is what we examined, not everything this campaign raised: the Commission returns the largest employer groupings rather than every contribution, and contributions too small to be itemised carry no employer at all. Read the classified fraction as a share of what we looked at.

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 Katy Padilla Stout 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.