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Montserrat Garibay Democrat

Texas House, District 49

About this race: Central Austin. The certified ballot carries a Democratic and a Green nominee and no Republican. Neither candidate holds state legislative office, so neither appears in any 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call.

Montserrat GaribayDemocrat
100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 thin — one or two records produced this number · 2 of 2 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.

  • 2026-09-21 questionnaire — Answered that she has been publicly supportive of legalising, regulating and taxing cannabis for personal use by adults 21 and over, and that she does not believe it makes sense to outlaw the hemp industry, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-03-22 statement — Platform plank calls for legalising, regulating and taxing cannabis for adults 21 and over, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Said2026-03-22

    Published a platform plank under the heading "Criminal Justice Reform" on her campaign site reading, in full: "Legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis for personal use by Texas adults aged 21+". The page carries no date of its own; this is the date of the earliest Internet Archive capture containing the text, so the position was published by at least then.

    web.archive.org, montserratfortexas.com

  • Questionnaire2026-09-21

    Said she has been "publicly supportive of the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis for personal use by Texas adults aged 21+", in the Texas Hemp Business Council’s 2026 candidate questionnaire. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions to 223 candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office and publishes the answers it receives in full, without editing. These are the candidate’s own words, submitted by the candidate.

    Asked about the future of hemp in Texas, the answer was, in full: "I have been publicly supportive of the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis for personal use by Texas adults aged 21+. Similarly, I do not believe it makes sense to outlaw a hemp industry that has billions of dollars in economic impact in a manner that harms Texas businesses and consumers. Product sales should be limited to adults 21+. I also support testing, safe packaging, clear labelling, and other commonsense regulations based in evidence and science."

    Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom, at what dose, in what form and subject to what safeguards: "Product sales should be limited to adults 21+ from licensed and regulated retailers. I also support testing, safe packaging, clear labelling, and other commonsense regulations but am less concerned with form or dosage outside of what may be evidence-based standards." On the questionnaire’s fixed-choice questions: on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, "Strongly Support"; on whether regulation is preferable to prohibition where a product can be made and sold safely, "Yes"; on hemp agriculture, "Support"; on retail regulation, "Local licensing in addition to state requirements"; on tax policy, "Yes"; on consumer choice, "Yes".

    The date is the date the council recorded the submission, in Central time.

    texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 83295, filed as “Garibay, Montserrat”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 49, dated 2025-10-14.

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.

Read this filer’s own reports at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter 83295. The Commission’s search posts its results, so there is no direct link to one filer’s page; the number above is what makes it one step instead of a hunt.

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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 Montserrat Garibay 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.