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Staci Childs Democrat

Texas House, District 131

About this race: Harris County. Neither candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so neither appears in any 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. Both were checked against the same sources and neither has a documented act.

Staci ChildsDemocrat
75/100 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.

  • 2026-09-17 questionnaire — Chose "Support" on maintaining a legal hemp marketplace, which is a position for keeping the products legal. Scored lower than most of this batch because on whether regulation beats prohibition the answer was "Depends on the product" rather than yes, and it would prohibit categories of hemp-derived product outright. The answer also raises how hemp retailers are distributed between neighbourhoods, which is a point about siting rather than legality, counted as +1 at weight 2

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 1. Full method and the bill table.

  • Questionnaire2026-09-17

    Said the hemp industry can be regulated and should be accessible to adults, while excluding some products and raising where hemp shops are concentrated, 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. The council prints this candidate’s name as "Staci Childs Davis". The candidate is identified here by the office, district and party reported to the council, which match a single candidate, and under the spelling on the Secretary of State’s certified list. We have not found any other publication using the longer surname, so we do not print it as a name.

    Asked about the future of hemp in Texas, the answer was, in full: "I believe that the hemp industry can be regulated and should be accessible to adults and people who are going through severe illness. I think naturally grown and produced hemp-derived products should be sold through licensed retailers, excluding artificial products and products that are known to cause extreme impairment. However, I do believe that there is an overabundance of hemp stores in black and brown neighborhoods, and they should be distributed more evenly throughout Texas."

    Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom and with what safeguards: "Licensed THC distributors should be able to sell verified, vetted hemp-derived products from licensed retailers. The appropriate age should be adults who are legally allowed to drink and smoke cigarettes. However, artificial and certified dangerous hemp-derived products that are known to cause impairment should be prohibited." On the questionnaire’s fixed-choice questions: on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, "Support"; on whether regulation is preferable to prohibition where a product can be made and sold safely, "Depends on the product"; 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

Texas Ethics Commission filer 86453, filed as “Childs, Staci D.”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 131, dated 2025-09-15. The name on the filing is not word-for-word the name on the ballot — both are printed above so you can check the pairing yourself before you rely on it.

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 86453. 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.

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 Staci Childs 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.