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Riley Rodriquez Democrat

Texas Senate, District 28

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.

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 Riley Rodriquez’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the Texas Senate, District 28 race page.

Riley RodriquezDemocrat
100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 1 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 — Wrote "I support full legalization and common sense regulations on all Hemp derived products and THC" and chose "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal hemp marketplace. The answer also names an opponent and what that opponent is said to intend; we do not reproduce that, because this guide does not publish one candidate’s claims about another’s motives, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Questionnaire2026-09-21

    Said full legalisation of hemp-derived products and THC has their support, with licensed dispensaries selling to adults 21 and over, 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: "If elected I envision a Texas where the Hemp THC industries contribute billions to our economy. A Texas where small business owners in rural places can grow their own crop, have it inspected, sell it to the dispensary down the street and give small town texans a choice of natural care instead of SSRIs and alcohol. I believe Hemp is the life blood the ag industry in Texas has been searching for and the economic boost rural Texas so desperately needs."

    Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom and with what safeguards: "Licensed dispensary should be allowed to sell THC to Texans 21 years or older unless otherwise prescribed by a Doctor. Im not sure in what way dosage is being used so I'll say that an adult buying from a licensed dispensary should be able to buy as much as they want the same with alcohol. Any form is appropriate as long as it is safe and labeled appropriately.

    Safeguards should be things like child safety seals, clear THC labeling, all THC products behind the counter like tobacco and ID requirements like all alcohol and tobacco" 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 retail regulation, "Reasonable statewide licensing/registration".

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

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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. Riley Rodriquez 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.

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