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Sandy Ibanez Democrat

Texas House, District 28

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 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 Sandy Ibanez’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 House, District 28 race page.

Sandy IbanezDemocrat
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.

  • 2026-09-22 questionnaire — Chose "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal hemp marketplace and answered that regulation is preferable to prohibition where a product can be made and sold safely, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Questionnaire2026-09-22

    Said Texas should keep a legal, regulated hemp marketplace and not treat compliant businesses like unlawful ones, 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 envision a Texas hemp industry that is legal, competitive, innovative, and responsibly regulated. Texas farmers and businesses should have the opportunity to participate in a legitimate agricultural and consumer marketplace while Texans have meaningful protections through product testing, accurate labeling, age verification, appropriate dosage and packaging standards, and effective enforcement.

    I support clear statewide rules that distinguish responsible businesses from bad actors and provide regulatory certainty without unnecessary barriers to entry. Texas should also encourage hemp farming, processing, manufacturing, and value-added production that create economic opportunities here at home. Future legislation should be guided by credible science, measurable public-health outcomes, consumer safety, and input from farmers, businesses, healthcare professionals, consumers, and other stakeholders.

    I would support reviewing existing regulations when evidence or federal requirements change and making targeted adjustments when demonstrated problems require them. Texas can protect consumers while allowing lawful Texas businesses to compete and grow." Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom and with what safeguards: "THC-containing products should be sold only by businesses that are properly licensed or registered under the applicable state regulatory framework and that comply with testing, manufacturing, packaging, labeling, recordkeeping, and inspection requirements.

    Sales should be limited to adults who meet the applicable legal age requirement. Retailers should be required to verify age, provide accurate product information, and avoid misleading medical or therapeutic claims. The permitted dose, product form, and cannabinoid concentration should be determined through a transparent, evidence-based process that considers: -The specific cannabinoid and its concentration -The method of administration, such as edible, tincture, or inhaled product -Onset and duration of effects -Potential impairment and other health risks -Product testing and consistency -Packaging that prevents accidental access by children -Clear serving-size and total-content labeling -Warnings about impairment, pregnancy, medication interactions, and driving -Restrictions on marketing that appeals to children -Appropriate monitoring, reporting, recalls, and penalties for violations I would support a system that allows qualified businesses to participate in the legal marketplace while maintaining meaningful safeguards for consumers, children, and public health.

    Dosage limits should be based on credible scientific evidence and periodically reviewed as additional safety data become available." 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. Sandy Ibanez 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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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 Sandy Ibanez 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.