No record compiled yet. Checked on 2026-09-18. Her live campaign site is built to render in a browser and returns no text to our tooling, so we read the Internet Archive's captures of it instead, which are plain HTML. The platform page captured on 2026-05-13 lists five issue areas — government waste, energy costs, Texas families, human trafficking and government accountability — and cannabis is not among them, nor is any drug-policy item. An earlier policy page captured on 2025-08-30 lists ten items and cannabis is not among those either. Her archived biography and home pages contain no mention of cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp, and no drug-policy sub-page exists among the archived issue pages. Her iVoterGuide profile was read; that questionnaire asks no drug-policy question. STILL OPEN: search results indicate she completed a Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey in 2025, and we have not been able to read it — Ballotpedia returns no text to automated requests and the Internet Archive holds no capture of a page for her. We also checked Austin Public Safety Commission records for the period of her appointment, which began in March 2023, after Austin's 2022 marijuana ballot measure; no meeting record naming her on a cannabis item was found, and that commission issues recommendations rather than roll calls. She has held no Texas legislative office.
Lauren B. Peña Republican
US House, District 37
An Austin seat. Note the district number: the incumbent currently represents District 35 and is on the 2026 ballot in District 37, because Texas redrew its map mid-decade. A guide that reads the district off the old map would show Austin voters a different race entirely.
Lauren B. PeñaRepublican
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