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Ken King Republican

Texas House, District 88

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.

Ken KingRepublicanIncumbent
46/100 support for legal access — middle band, 34 to 66 strong — six or more records produced this number · 30 of 61 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.

  • 2025-06-01 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — signed on, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-06-01 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-30 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — signed on, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-22 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-21 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — signed on, counted as -2 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-21 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-21 statement — As House sponsor, laid out the bill restricting hemp-derived THC, counted as -2 at weight 2
  • 2025-05-15 Grant programme for testing suspected THC HB 4879 — voted, counted as -1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-14 Grant programme for testing suspected THC HB 4879 — voted, counted as -1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-13 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-12 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-04-30 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 3
  • 2025-03-14 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — signed on, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-03-13 Grant programme for testing suspected THC HB 4879 — signed on, counted as -1 at weight 3
  • 2023-05-10 Repeal of the ban on hemp products for smoking HB 4918 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2023-04-27 Penalties for possession HB 218 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 1.8
  • 2023-04-12 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 1805 — signed on, counted as +1 at weight 1.2
  • 2023-04-12 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 1805 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2023-04-11 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 1805 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2021-05-28 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 1535 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2021-04-30 Penalties for possession HB 441 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 1.8
  • 2021-04-29 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 1535 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2021-04-28 Penalties for tetrahydrocannabinols HB 2593 — voted, counted as +2 at weight 1.8
  • 2021-04-21 Defence to prosecution for small amounts HB 1694 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 1.8
  • 2019-05-24 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 3703 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 0.9
  • 2019-05-08 Low-THC cannabis for more conditions HB 3703 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 0.9
  • 2019-04-30 Penalties for possession HB 63 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 0.9
  • 2019-04-29 Penalties for possession HB 63 — voted, counted as -2 at weight 0.9
  • 2015-05-19 Texas Compassionate Use Act SB 339 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 0.9
  • 2015-05-18 Texas Compassionate Use Act SB 339 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 0.9

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: -0.166. Full method and the bill table.

  • Vote2015-05-18

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1182, passage of SB 339 to third reading, the bill creating the Texas Compassionate-Use Program for low-THC cannabis, which carried 96 Yeas to 34 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2015-05-18

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1180, the motion to table Amendment No. 1 by Representative Moody to SB 339, an amendment that would have changed the bill from a physician prescribing low-THC cannabis to a physician recommending it and added definitions of an adequate supply and of a caregiver. The motion to table prevailed, 99 Yeas to 32 Nays. The bill is captioned "relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis and the regulation of related organizations and individuals; requiring a dispensing organization to obtain a license to dispense low-THC cannabis and any employee of a dispensing organization to obtain a registration; authorizing fees."

    The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 84th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: This is a vote on a motion to table a floor amendment to Senate Bill 339, not a vote on the bill itself. A floor amendment, and a motion to table one, does not take the direction of the bill it is offered to, and this site does not assert a direction for it. The record is shown because the journal names the member, and it is kept out of the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2015-05-18

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1181, the motion to table Amendment No. 2 by Representative Moody to SB 339, an amendment that would have added a physician recommendation alongside a prescription throughout the bill. The motion to table prevailed, 98 Yeas to 33 Nays. The bill is captioned "relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis and the regulation of related organizations and individuals; requiring a dispensing organization to obtain a license to dispense low-THC cannabis and any employee of a dispensing organization to obtain a registration; authorizing fees."

    The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 84th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: This is a vote on a motion to table a floor amendment to Senate Bill 339, not a vote on the bill itself. A floor amendment, and a motion to table one, does not take the direction of the bill it is offered to, and this site does not assert a direction for it. The record is shown because the journal names the member, and it is kept out of the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2015-05-19

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1203, final House passage of SB 339, the bill creating the Texas Compassionate-Use Program for low-THC cannabis, which carried 108 Yeas to 38 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-04-24

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 609, final House passage of HB 1325, the 2019 bill on the production and regulation of hemp and products made from hemp, which carried 144 Yeas to 0 Nays, with 1 present and not voting.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 1325 (86th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why HB 1325 is not scored

    Production and regulation of hemp — the 2019 bill that brought Texas into line with the federal hemp definition. It is an agricultural and licensing framework rather than an access measure, and it is read the same way as the other hemp-production bills here, so it is not scored. Its votes are still shown.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-04-29

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 780, passage to engrossment of CSHB 63, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing small amounts of marihuana and drug paraphernalia, which carried 98 Yeas to 43 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-04-30

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 801, final House passage of HB 63, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing small amounts of marihuana and drug paraphernalia, which carried 103 Yeas to 42 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-05-08

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1097, third-reading passage of HB 3703, widening the medical conditions for which low-THC cannabis may be prescribed under the Compassionate-Use Program, which carried 133 Yeas to 10 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-05-22

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1713, the motion to concur in the Senate’s amendments to HB 1325, the hemp production and regulation bill, sending it to the Governor, which carried 140 Yeas to 3 Nays, with 2 present and not voting.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 1325 (86th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why HB 1325 is not scored

    Production and regulation of hemp — the 2019 bill that brought Texas into line with the federal hemp definition. It is an agricultural and licensing framework rather than an access measure, and it is read the same way as the other hemp-production bills here, so it is not scored. Its votes are still shown.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2019-05-24

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1824, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 3703, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion, sending it to the Governor, which carried 136 Yeas to 5 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-04-21

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 384, House passage of HB 1694, creating a defence to prosecution for small-amount possession when a person seeks emergency help for an overdose, which carried 145 Yeas to 2 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-04-28

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 484, final House passage of HB 2593, moving possession of tetrahydrocannabinols into a new penalty group whose lowest tiers are misdemeanors, out of one where any amount is a felony, which carried 108 Yeas to 33 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-04-29

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 535, House passage of HB 1535, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis under the Compassionate-Use Program, which carried 134 Yeas to 12 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-04-30

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 596, third-reading passage of HB 441, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of marihuana and drug paraphernalia possession, which carried 88 Yeas to 40 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-05-04

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 663, third-reading passage of HB 3948, on the production and regulation of hemp and consumable hemp products, which carried 132 Yeas to 13 Nays, with 2 present and not voting.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 3948 (87th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why HB 3948 is not scored

    Hemp and consumable hemp production and regulation. Read as an industry framework rather than an access measure; the direction is arguable, so it is not scored.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-05-28

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1688, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 1535, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion, which the Senate had narrowed, which carried 119 Yeas to 25 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2021-05-30

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 1759, adoption of the conference committee report on HB 2593, the final vote sending the tetrahydrocannabinol penalty bill to the Governor, which carried 95 Yeas to 44 Nays.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A Nay on concurring in the Senate’s changes to the bill. Refusing the Senate version and opposing the bill point opposite ways, and the record does not say which this was. Shown, not scored.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-04-11

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 143, passage to engrossment of CSHB 1805, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis, which carried 121 Yeas to 23 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Coauthored2023-04-12

    Signed on as coauthor of HB 1805 (88R), relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions, per the per-member Date Signed On column.

    capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-04-12

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 153, final House passage of HB 1805, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis, which carried 127 Yeas to 19 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-04-14

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 203, third-reading passage of HB 513, increasing the penalty for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance or marihuana causing death or serious bodily injury. The bill passed, 140 Yeas to 2 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance or marihuana causing death or serious bodily injury; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty."

    The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K.", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname. The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 88, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Ken King.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 513 is on this site's unscored list: Increases the penalty for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance causing death or serious bodily injury. That is an overdose-death measure, not a question about lawful cannabis access, and scoring it either way would misrepresent the vote. The act is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-04-25

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 446, third-reading passage of HB 114, on the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events. The measure carried, 145 Yeas to 2 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 88th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 114 is on this site’s unscored list: a school-discipline measure, not a cannabis-access measure. Its effect on cannabis is which school-discipline placement a student caught with marihuana receives — it moves marihuana into its own paragraph of Education Code Section 37.006(a)(2), out of the mandatory-expulsion trigger in Section 37.007(a)(3) and into the at-capacity in-school-suspension provision of Section 37.009(a-1) — and it does not change who may possess, buy, grow, prescribe or be prosecuted for cannabis.

    The change the bill was carried for was adding e-cigarettes. Both of its record votes were near-unanimous and neither separates the candidates on this site: every one of the 97 who appear in the passage roll is in the Yeas. The act is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-04-27

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 605, third-reading passage of HB 218, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing marihuana and certain tetrahydrocannabinols, which carried 87 Yeas to 59 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-05-02

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 812, third-reading passage of HB 2818, on hemp production and research permits. The bill passed, 126 Yeas to 17 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the production and regulation of hemp; providing an administrative penalty; requiring a permit to conduct certain research involving hemp; authorizing a fee; creating a criminal offense." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K.", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

    The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 88, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Ken King.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 2818 is on this site's unscored list: Hemp production and research permits. An agricultural measure whose direction on consumer access is not clear from the bill. The act is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Said2023-05-10

    Filed a statement of vote printed in the House Journal on Record Vote 1477, third reading of HB 4918, on the processing, manufacture and sale of hemp products for smoking, on the reconsidered vote, which passed 84-59, reading: "When Record No. 1477 was taken, I was shown voting yes. I intended to vote no." The journal prints the signature as "K. King". A statement of vote of this kind is a correction to how the vote registered in the chamber, so it is a fact about the record rather than a separate position.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: ⚠️A statement of vote corrects the roll, and the roll itself is already on this page, so this is shown and not counted. Counting it as well would record the same member twice on the same question.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-05-10

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 1421, third reading of HB 4918, on the processing, manufacture and sale of hemp products for smoking, which failed to pass 69-75 and was reconsidered later the same evening. The bill failed to pass, 69 Yeas to 75 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Nay list as "King, K.", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

    The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 88, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Ken King.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: ⚠️This vote was annulled by the House itself, so it is shown and not counted. House Bill 4918 failed on this roll call, and the House then agreed to reconsider it later the same evening, after which the bill passed on Record Vote 1477. Only that final roll call moves the score. A member appearing both here and on Record Vote 1477 has not been recorded twice over: the House put the same question twice, and the second answer is the one that stood.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-05-10

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1476, the motion to reconsider the vote by which HB 4918, on hemp products for smoking, had failed to pass earlier that evening. The motion prevailed, 97 Yeas to 31 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K.", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

    The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 88, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Ken King.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: ⚠️A procedural motion, not a position on the bill, so it is shown and not counted. This roll call is the motion to reconsider the vote by which House Bill 4918 had failed earlier the same evening; the motion prevailed 97 to 31 and the bill then passed on Record Vote 1477. A member may be willing to take a question again without that telling you what they think the answer is, which is why motions of this kind never move the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-05-10

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1477, third reading of HB 4918, on the processing, manufacture and sale of hemp products for smoking, on the reconsidered vote, which passed 84-59. The bill passed, 84 Yeas to 59 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K.", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

    The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 88, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Ken King.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2023-05-26

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2168, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 114, on the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events, the vote that finally passed it. The measure carried, 136 Yeas to 6 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events."

    The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King, K."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 88th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 114 is on this site’s unscored list: a school-discipline measure, not a cannabis-access measure. Its effect on cannabis is which school-discipline placement a student caught with marihuana receives — it moves marihuana into its own paragraph of Education Code Section 37.006(a)(2), out of the mandatory-expulsion trigger in Section 37.007(a)(3) and into the at-capacity in-school-suspension provision of Section 37.009(a-1) — and it does not change who may possess, buy, grow, prescribe or be prosecuted for cannabis.

    The change the bill was carried for was adding e-cigarettes. Both of its record votes were near-unanimous and neither separates the candidates on this site: every one of the 97 who appear in the passage roll is in the Yeas. The act is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-03-13

    Filed HB 4879 (89R) as primary author, creating a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in testing substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol.

    capitol.texas.gov, journals.house.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-03-14

    Filed HB 46 (89R) as primary author, relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program.

    capitol.texas.gov, journals.house.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-03-14

    Filed HB 28 (89R) as sole author, relating to the regulation of consumable hemp products and the transfer of regulatory functions; the bill was left pending in the Committee on State Affairs on 2025-04-07.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 28 (89th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why HB 28 is not scored

    A hemp industry framework — licensing, permits and product rules. The project already declines to score this family (see 87R HB 3948): it can tighten or legitimise the market depending on its terms, and the direction is arguable.

    capitol.texas.gov, journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-04-30

    Voted Aye in the House Committee on State Affairs to report SB 3, the intoxicating-hemp-THC ban, as substituted, favorably to the full house with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed. The record vote was 15 Ayes, 0 Nays, 0 present not voting and 0 absent, and they are named in the printed Ayes list in the committee minutes as "King".

    capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-05

    Voted Aye in the House Committee on State Affairs to report SB 3, the intoxicating-hemp-THC ban, as substituted, favorably to the full house, on the motion to reconsider the committee report adopted five days earlier. The record vote was 11 Ayes to 0 Nays, and they are named in the printed Ayes list in the committee minutes as "King".

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: One committee decision, counted once. The House Committee on State Affairs reported this same substituted committee report on Senate Bill 3 to the full House on 2025-04-30, and that report is already counted in this score. The record vote of 2025-05-05 is the committee putting the identical question a second time on a motion to reconsider, and it carried the same way, with no Nays printed on either day. The vote is shown here in full and the number rests on the 2025-04-30 report alone.

    Which of the two copies is set aside makes no difference to any score: both are committee votes of the same weight, the same direction and the same recency band, and recomputing all 436 candidates with either one removed moves the same ten numbers by the same amounts.

    capitol.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-05-12

    Offered Amendment No. 1 to CSHB 46 on second reading, adding satellite-location and dispensing-organization licensing provisions and pulmonary-inhalation dosage language; the amendment was adopted.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site does not score floor amendments, because an amendment can point the opposite way to the bill it changes, and its scoring rules read this record as concerning one.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-12

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 2184, passage of CSHB 46 to engrossment as amended, 118-16, House Journal 62nd Day page 4114.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Said2025-05-12

    Speaking on the Texas House floor on 12 May 2025 as the author of HB 46, the Compassionate Use Program expansion, said: “Texans still struggle to get access to the medicine that they are legally allowed to receive”. Reported by Community Impact on 16 May 2025.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: A record of this kind counts only when this site has published a reading of its direction, with the reason for it, and none has been made for this one.

    communityimpact.com

  • Vote2025-05-13

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 2257, final passage of HB 46 on third reading, 122-21, House Journal 63rd Day page 4252.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-14

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2514, passage to engrossment of CSHB 4879, funding local law enforcement to test substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, which carried 121 Yeas to 15 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-14

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2495, passage of SB 1833, as amended, to third reading, on the use of a social media platform in furtherance of a controlled-substance delivery offence. The measure carried, 135 Yeas to 2 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King"; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Senate Bill 1833 is on this site’s unscored list: it raises the penalty for delivering any controlled substance when a social media platform is used to arrange the delivery, and the floor remarks describe it wholly as a response to counterfeit fentanyl pills sold to schoolchildren. The only cannabis-specific change the House made to it, Amendment No. 1, adopted immediately before Record Vote 2495, exempts delivery of four ounces of marihuana or less from the enhancement.

    Its direction on cannabis access is therefore arguable, and the vote is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-15

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2629, final House passage of HB 4879, funding local law enforcement to test substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, which carried 128 Yeas to 11 Nays.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-15

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2594, third-reading passage of SB 1833, on the use of a social media platform in furtherance of a controlled-substance delivery offence. The measure carried, 136 Yeas to 3 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "King"; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 88.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Senate Bill 1833 is on this site’s unscored list: it raises the penalty for delivering any controlled substance when a social media platform is used to arrange the delivery, and the floor remarks describe it wholly as a response to counterfeit fentanyl pills sold to schoolchildren. The only cannabis-specific change the House made to it, Amendment No. 1, adopted immediately before Record Vote 2495, exempts delivery of four ounces of marihuana or less from the enhancement.

    Its direction on cannabis access is therefore arguable, and the vote is recorded without moving the score.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-05-21

    Appeared in the House Journal as House sponsor of CSSB 3 on second reading, the intoxicating-hemp regulation bill authored in the Senate by Perry; SB 3 had been received from the Senate on 2025-03-20.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Said2025-05-21

    Moved to postpone consideration of CSSB 3 until 4 p.m. that day; the motion prevailed, House Journal 69th Day.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A scheduling motion, which sets no position on the bill's substance.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Authored2025-05-21

    Offered Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 3, striking '302' and substituting '305' among other changes and adding a January 1, 2027 compliance deferral for certain Alcoholic Beverage Code licensees; House Journal 69th Day page 5548.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site does not score floor amendments, because an amendment can point the opposite way to the bill it changes, and its scoring rules read this record as concerning one.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3188, adoption of his own Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 3, 136-0, House Journal 69th Day page 5552.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3189, adoption of Amendment No. 3 by Oliverson amending Amendment No. 2 to CSSB 3, 102-24, House Journal 69th Day page 5563.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3190, adoption of Amendment No. 4 by Moody amending Amendment No. 2 to CSSB 3, 126-10, House Journal 69th Day page 5566.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Nay on Record Vote 3191, adoption of Amendment No. 2 as amended to CSSB 3, the Oliverson-led substitute replacing everything below the enacting clause, 86-53, House Journal 69th Day page 5567.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3192, passage of CSSB 3 as amended to third reading, 95-44, House Journal 69th Day page 5568.

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  • Said2025-05-21

    As House sponsor, laid out the bill on the Texas House floor. The House voted to order the remarks printed, and the Journal Supplement records them verbatim: "CSSB 3 is an important bill for the State of Texas. Over the past few months, I've met with stakeholders from across the industry and heard testimony from hundreds of witnesses. Those culminated in the bill we have before us. It ensures that hemp is properly regulated and safe for adult Texans to consume."

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  • Said2025-05-22

    Moved to postpone consideration of SB 3 until 3 p.m. that day; the motion prevailed, House Journal 70th Day.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A scheduling motion, which sets no position on the bill's substance.

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  • Said2025-05-22

    Moved a second time that day to postpone consideration of SB 3, until 6:15 p.m.; the motion prevailed, House Journal 70th Day.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A scheduling motion, which sets no position on the bill's substance.

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  • Vote2025-05-22

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3303, adoption of Amendment No. 1 by Moody to SB 3 on third reading, 108-30, House Journal 70th Day page 5700.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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  • Vote2025-05-22

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3304, final passage of SB 3 as amended, 87-54, House Journal 70th Day page 5701.

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  • Authored2025-05-30

    Named to the House conference committee on HB 46 when the House refused to concur in Senate amendments and requested a conference committee, House Journal page 7451.

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  • Authored2025-06-01

    Submitted the conference committee report on HB 46 to the House as a House conferee and moved to adopt it, House Journal 80th Day page 7895.

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  • Vote2025-06-01

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 4162, adoption of HR 1523 suspending House Rule 13 Section 9(a)(4) to let the HB 46 conference committee add text allowing a physician to prescribe more than one package of low-THC cannabis in a 90-day period, 128-12, House Journal 80th Day page 7894.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A vote to suspend a House rule so that a conference committee may consider particular text is a vote about procedure, not a recorded position on the text. Shown, not scored.

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  • Vote2025-06-01

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 4163, adoption of the conference committee report on HB 46, 138-1, House Journal 80th Day page 7902.

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  • Vote2025-06-01

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 4164, adoption of SCR 56, the first of the two enrolling corrections to HB 46, which instructed the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives to make corrections in the enrolled text of HB 46, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion. The resolution was adopted 137 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, and the House Journal for the 80th Day names this member in the printed Yeas list.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score SCR 56 (89th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why SCR 56 is not scored

    A concurrent resolution, not a bill, and the second of two enrolling-clerk corrections to HB 46 — the sibling of HCR 171, ruled the same way and for the same reason. SCR 56 instructed the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrolled text of HB 46, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion. Adopted in the Senate 2025-06-01, Yeas 31 Nays 0, and in the House the same day by Record Vote 4164, 137 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, House Journal 80th Day page 7902 (journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/html/89RDAY80FINAL.HTM).

    What it said. The House journal prints only the recital, "Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives to make corrections in HB 46", so the operative text was read in the Senate Journal for 2025-06-01 (journals.senate.texas.gov/sjrnl/89r/html/89RSJ06-01-F.htm), which prints the resolution in full: "RESOLVED by the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas, That the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives be instructed to make the following corrections to the enrolled version of House Bill No. 46: In SECTION 15 of the bill, in amended Section 169.003(a)(3)(A), Occupations Code (page 10, between lines 8 and 9), immediately following added subparagraph (xi), insert the following appropriately numbered subparagraph and renumber subsequent subparagraphs of that paragraph accordingly: (__) Crohn’s disease or other inflammatory bowel disease;".

    ⚠️Read alone it looks like adding a qualifying condition to the medical programme, which would be an expansion of access — and that is the trap, running the opposite way to its sibling’s. HCR 171 struck a sentence and looked restrictive; SCR 56 inserts a condition and looks expansive; both are neither, because both conform the enrolled bill to the text the two chambers actually adopted. The test is whether the inserted language was already in what passed, and it was.

    The conference committee report on HB 46, laid before the house and printed in the House Journal 80th Day at page 7900 (journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/html/89RDAY80FINAL.HTM), sets out Section 15 amending Section 169.003 and lists the qualifying diagnoses in order: "(xi) traumatic brain injury; (xii) Crohn’s disease or other inflammatory bowel disease; (xiii) a terminal illness or a condition for which a patient is receiving hospice or palliative care".

    The position matches the resolution exactly — SCR 56 asks for the insertion "immediately following added subparagraph (xi)", and the adopted report prints Crohn’s as (xii), immediately following (xi). That report was adopted by the House on 2025-06-01 by Record Vote 4163, 138 Yeas to 1 Nay, and by the Senate the same day, Yeas 31 Nays 0. The subparagraph had therefore already been voted into the bill by both chambers; the enrolled copy had dropped it, and SCR 56 put it back.

    A Yes on an enrolling correction is not a position on which diseases qualify. The enrolled text itself cannot be checked from here: capitol.texas.gov disallows /TLODOCS/ to us. Downstream, measured: 121 verified acts cite this resolution, across 121 distinct candidates (49 Democrats, 72 Republicans), and every one of them already holds a published number. classify() returns "other" for all 121, so no published number moves whichever way this is ruled — the ruling is what lets the acts be printed with a written reason instead of sitting unjudged.

    HB 46 itself is scored, at +1, and that is where a member’s position on the Compassionate-Use expansion is read.

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  • Vote2025-06-02

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 4167, adoption of HCR 171, the second enrolling correction to HB 46, which instructed the enrolling clerk of the house to strike from the enrolled bill a sentence allowing low-THC cannabis prescribed for pulmonary inhalation to exceed one percent tetrahydrocannabinols by weight in each dosage unit. The resolution was adopted 138 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, and the House Journal for the 81st Day names this member in the printed Yeas list.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HCR 171 (89th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

    Why HCR 171 is not scored

    A concurrent resolution, not a bill: it instructed the enrolling clerk to strike from the enrolled HB 46, in Section 16, added Section 169.006(b), Occupations Code (page 11, lines 16-20), the sentence “Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, low-THC cannabis prescribed under Subsection (a) for pulmonary inhalation may exceed one percent by weight of tetrahydrocannabinols in each dosage unit of the substance to be aerosolized or vaporized.”

    Adopted 2025-06-02 by Record Vote 4167, 138 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, House Journal 81st Day pages 7921-7922.

    ⚠️Read alone it looks like stripping a potency allowance out of the medical programme, and the journals say otherwise. The sentence entered the bill through King's floor Amendment No. 1 on second reading, House Journal 62nd Day, 2025-05-12 (journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/html/89RDAY62FINAL.HTM), item (10); item (9) of the same amendment fixed the definition of low-THC cannabis at not more than one percent by weight in each dosage unit, which is the benchmark the sentence excepts itself from.

    The conference committee report laid before the house on 2025-06-01 replaced that cap with not more than 10 milligrams in each dosage unit, and its own text of Section 169.006(b) consists only of the second sentence: the notwithstanding clause does not appear anywhere in the conference report as printed, House Journal 80th Day page 7900. So the struck sentence was not in the text either chamber finally adopted and it pointed at a cap the same report had deleted.

    HCR 171 conformed the enrolled bill to the bill that passed, which is what its own recital says and what 138 to 0 looks like; HB 46 took a second enrolling correction the day before, SCR 56 at Record Vote 4164. A Yes on an enrolling correction is not a position on potency. The enrolled text itself cannot be checked from here: capitol.texas.gov disallows /TLODOCS/ to us.

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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. Ken King 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 Ken King 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.