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Linda Howell Republican

Texas House, District 76

About this race: A district in the Houston suburbs. The sitting member's recorded votes on the 2025 hemp-THC ban and the Compassionate Use Program expansion are listed on the race page in date order, with their record-vote numbers, as the official journals print them.

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 Linda Howell’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 Linda Howell, 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 Texas House, District 76 race page.

Linda HowellRepublican

No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. 2 limits on that search are recorded with it.

What was checked for Linda Howell, 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/Linda_Howell, 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/Linda_Howell (15091 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.

⚠️The account of a search that used to stand here has been withdrawn. It said which two queries had been put to a search engine and that every surviving result had been opened by hand. No record of any of that exists in this project, and when the same pair of queries was put to a candidate whose own campaign site this guide had already published a record from, nineteen results came back without that site among them; the queries, the results and the test are kept at pipeline/data/inbox/campaign-site-search-control-2026-10-12.json.

Nothing below came from that search. A campaign site of this candidate's own was found on 2026-10-06 and 4 page(s) of it were read, by following the citation that the independent candidate tracker Vote the Person publishes for them; it is listed below with what it does and does not contain.

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 Linda Howell

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25747690 — sections on the page: the questions this chapter prints in full, under no section labels — 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.
  • votetheperson.org/candidates/linda-howell — 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 4 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.
  • lindafortexashd76.com their own site — sections on the page: 4 page(s) of this candidate's own campaign site, read in full by us on 2026-10-06 — reached from the home page's own links and from the site's sitemap where it publishes one, each fetched only after its host had been checked against robots.txt and found to permit it. Their own VOTE411 entry prints LindaforTexasHD76.com as their campaign website, so the site is theirs on their own say-so. The site itself also names the district, which is what makes it attributable: a site that named only the name would not be published here. Not one of those pages 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. This contradicts an earlier note on this card saying no campaign site of their own could be found: a site exists and was read. What it does not contain is any cannabis or hemp content.
  • communityimpact.com/sugar-land-missouri-city/election/q-a-see-the-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-76 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the November 2026 general election in Texas House District 76, published 2026-09-29. This candidate's answers are printed. The 5 questions put to every candidate were: “Why are you running for this position?”; “What would your top priorities be if elected?”; “What are the biggest challenges facing this district?”; “What are your priorities for the future of Texas education?”; “What will you do to lower the cost of living for Texas residents?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
  • communityimpact.com/sugar-land-missouri-city/election/qa-meet-the-republican-primary-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-76 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the March 2026 Republican primary in Texas House District 76, published 2026-02-19. This candidate's answers are printed. The 6 questions put to every candidate were: “Why are you running for office?”; “What are your qualifications for why you'd be a strong candidate in this role?”; “If elected, what will be your top priorities?”; “What are the biggest challenges facing this district and how do you plan to address these issues?”; “What projects are most important for the legislature to focus on for the future of Texas?”; “What do you see as the greatest challenge for Texas in the next five years?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.

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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. Linda Howell 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 Linda Howell 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.