The Comptroller collects taxes. Its Democratic nominee sits in the Texas Senate and has filed cannabis regulation, decriminalisation and constitutional-amendment bills across four legislatures, and voted against the hemp-THC ban. Eleven documented acts in a race nobody would think to check.
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Authored2020-11-12
Filed SJR 16 as author, captioned "Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis."
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Authored2021-02-10
Filed SB 652 as author, captioned "Relating to the criminal penalties for delivery and possession of marihuana and citations given for those offenses."
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Authored2021-03-10
Filed SB 1345 as author, captioned "Relating to regulating the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, and use of cannabis and cannabis products."
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Authored2022-11-14
Filed SB 209 as author, captioned "Relating to regulating cannabis and cannabis products."
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Authored2023-02-24
Filed SB 1183 as author, captioned "Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals."
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Authored2023-11-08
Filed SB 30 as author, captioned "Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals."
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Authored2024-11-13
Filed SB 334 as author, captioned "Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals."
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Authored2024-11-13
Filed SB 335 as author, captioned "Relating to regulating the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, and use of cannabis and cannabis products."
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Vote2025-03-19
Recorded Nay on final passage of CSSB 3 on third reading, the intoxicating-hemp-THC ban, which carried 26 Yeas to 5 Nays.
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Authored2025-08-15
Filed SB 30 as author, captioned "Relating to the regulation of products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and hemp beverages and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in them."
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Authored2025-08-15
Filed SB 31 as author, captioned "Relating to regulating the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis."
No record compiled yet. Checked on 2026-09-18: he served in the Texas Senate in the 84th and 85th Legislatures, and a sweep of the Legislature's own subject indexes for MARIHUANA and HEMP across those sessions and their called sessions returns no bill he authored. A 2015 news report that surfaced in searching as a possible cannabis-related procedural act was read in full and concerns a different bill entirely. NOT CHECKED: those subject indexes cover authors only, so a coauthor signature would not appear, and we could not resolve his member code to search the coauthor tables.
No record compiled yet. Checked on 2026-09-18: his Community Impact comptroller questionnaire and the Libertarian Party of Texas candidate listing, neither of which carries a cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp statement. He holds no Texas legislative office, so there is no roll call or bill authorship to search. The Libertarian Party platform addresses cannabis, but a party document is not an act by this candidate.
No record compiled yet. Checked on 2026-09-18: her Community Impact comptroller questionnaire, the Green Party of Texas 2026 nominee page and her campaign site, none of which carries a cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp statement. She holds no Texas legislative office, so there is no roll call or bill authorship to search. The Green Party platform addresses cannabis, but a party document is not an act by this candidate.
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