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In the televised gubernatorial debate, addressed medical cannabis and the Texas Compassionate Use Program. Texas NORML's account of the exchange, published the following morning, quotes him describing parents of children with epilepsy who approached him about cannabidiol oil and saying "I am the governor who signed the legalization of CBD oil", and adding that discussions with veterans and with parents of autistic children "make it a very strong compelling case about legalization of medical marijuana".

⚠️This is a secondary source's transcription of a live debate, not an official transcript.

⚠️That organisation's headline also states that he endorsed decriminalisation; the passage it quotes does not contain any such statement, and this site has not verified it separately, so no decriminalisation position is recorded here.

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Signed House Bill 114 of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, captioned "An Act relating to the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events." The governor-action list printed in the House Journal for the session's final day (75th Day, 2023-05-29) places HB 114 under "SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR" with the date June 13. The House had concurred in the Senate's amendments to the bill on 2023-05-26.

The bill changes the school-discipline provisions of the Education Code that apply to students found with marihuana or tetrahydrocannabinol, and adds e-cigarettes to them.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: This site's bill table rules 88R HB 114 out of scoring as a school-discipline measure rather than a cannabis-access measure, and the House votes on it are shown and not scored. Signing it is treated the same way.

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Signed House Bill 46, expanding the Texas Compassionate-Use Program, the state medical cannabis programme. The Legislature records the action as "Signed by the Governor" on 06/20/2025, effective 9/1/25.

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Vetoed Senate Bill 3, which would have banned the sale of virtually all hemp-derived THC products. The veto proclamation argued the bill could not survive court challenge: "Senate Bill 3 is well-intentioned. But it would never go into effect because of valid constitutional challenges. Litigation challenging the bill has already been filed, and the legal defects in the bill are undeniable. If I were to allow Senate Bill 3 to become law, its enforcement would be enjoined for years, leaving existing abuses unaddressed.

Texas cannot afford to wait." He wrote that the bill "would also make felons of other innocent Texans, like pharmacists stocking health supplements, veterans treating PTSD, and parents caring for epileptic children with FDA-approved medications."

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In the same announcement, called a special legislative session beginning 2025-07-21 to write regulation for THC consumables in place of the vetoed ban.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Calling a session to write a replacement framework sets no direction by itself; the agenda he set for it is scored separately.

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In the same veto proclamation, argued for strict regulation of hemp rather than deregulation: "Texans on each side of the Senate Bill 3 debate raise serious concerns. But one thing is clear—to ensure the highest level of safety for minors, as well as for adults, who obtain a product more dangerous than what they expected, Texas must strongly regulate hemp, and it must do so immediately." He wrote that "The current market is dangerously under-regulated, and children are paying the price", and concluded: "Passing a law is not the same thing as actually solving a problem.

Texas needs a bill that is enforceable and will make our communities safer today, rather than years from now."

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Set the July 2025 special session agenda, which included two hemp items. Under the heading "PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THC": "Legislation making it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21 years of age." Under "REGULATE HEMP-DERIVED PRODUCTS": "Legislation to comprehensively regulate hemp-derived products, including limiting potency, restricting synthetically modified compounds, and establishing enforcement mechanisms, all without banning a lawful agricultural commodity."

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In an interview during the special session, described banning intoxicating hemp products while keeping others legal: "The only hemp product that’s going to be out there is nonintoxicating hemp, which is below three milligrams of THC in the hemp, and we will make sure that there will be the level of enforcement to provide that." He said the bill he had vetoed would have "criminalized even a trace of THC", adding: "The fact of the matter is, there are traces of THC in the seeds that farmers use, there are traces of THC in the hemp products that farmers grow."

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Set the agenda for the second called session of the 89th Legislature. The proclamation was read into the House Journal on 2025-08-18 and lists two hemp items: "Legislation making it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21." and "Legislation to comprehensively regulate hemp-derived products, including limiting potency, restricting synthetically modified compounds, and establishing enforcement mechanisms, all without banning lawful hemp-derived products."

The wording changed from the first called session's proclamation of 2025-07-09, which is recorded separately on this page and which read "Legislation making it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21 years of age." and "...all without banning a lawful agricultural commodity." Two changes: "under 21 years of age" became "under 21", and the carve-out that the legislation must not ban "a lawful agricultural commodity" became a carve-out against banning "lawful hemp-derived products".

This site records what the text says and does not characterise why it was changed.

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Issued an executive order directing state agencies to bar sales of consumable hemp products to anyone under 21 and to require government-issued identification at the point of sale. In the announcement he said: "Texas will not wait when it comes to protecting children and families", and "While these products would still benefit from the kind of comprehensive regulation set by the Texas Legislature for substances like alcohol and tobacco, my executive order makes sure that kids are kept safe and parents have peace of mind now, and that consumers know the products they purchase are tested and labeled responsibly."

The date was previously given here as 2025-09-25, from a secondary source; the Governor’s own announcement is dated 2025-09-10, and that is used now.

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Directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to toughen enforcement against vape and smoke shops not complying with state law, a month after his hemp executive order. His office’s release says the department’s Criminal Investigations Division will run targeted inspections and undercover operations, test seized products and bring charges. He said: "Texas will protect children from dangerous hemp products", and: "Today, I directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to increase surveillance and enforcement of any vape and smoke shop violating Texas law.

Texas will prioritize protecting our children."

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Signed on as a coauthor of HB 81 in the 85th Legislature, which would have replaced the criminal penalty for possessing small amounts of marihuana with a civil penalty. It reached the House calendar and died there. The Legislature’s author table records the sign-on date as 2017-02-16.

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Signed on as a coauthor of HB 2107 in the 85th Legislature, which would have authorised the possession, use, cultivation, distribution and delivery of medical cannabis for patients with certain debilitating medical conditions. It died in committee. The Legislature’s author table records the sign-on date as 2017-05-03.

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Signed on as a coauthor of HB 3703 in the 86th Legislature, which widened the medical conditions for which low-THC cannabis may be prescribed under the Compassionate-Use Program. It was enacted. The Legislature’s author table records the sign-on date as 2019-04-11.

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Signed on as a coauthor of House Bill 63 in the 86th Legislature, which would have reduced possession of a small amount of marijuana to a civil penalty rather than a criminal offence.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 609, final House passage of HB 1325, the 2019 bill on the production and regulation of hemp and products made from hemp, which carried 144 Yeas to 0 Nays, with 1 present and not voting.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 1325 (86th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 780, passage to engrossment of CSHB 63, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing small amounts of marihuana and drug paraphernalia, which carried 98 Yeas to 43 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 801, final House passage of HB 63, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing small amounts of marihuana and drug paraphernalia, which carried 103 Yeas to 42 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1097, third-reading passage of HB 3703, widening the medical conditions for which low-THC cannabis may be prescribed under the Compassionate-Use Program, which carried 133 Yeas to 10 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1713, the motion to concur in the Senate’s amendments to HB 1325, the hemp production and regulation bill, sending it to the Governor, which carried 140 Yeas to 3 Nays, with 2 present and not voting.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 1325 (86th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1824, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 3703, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion, sending it to the Governor, which carried 136 Yeas to 5 Nays.

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Signed on as a coauthor of HB 3248 in the 87th Legislature, a bill relating to the regulation of the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis and cannabis products and local regulation of cannabis establishments; authorizing the imposition of fees; requiring an occupational license; creating a criminal offense; imposing a tax.

The Legislature’s author table records the sign-on date as 2021-03-25. It was referred to the House Committee on Licensing and Administrative Procedures and never received a vote.

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Voted Aye in the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence to report HB 441, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of marihuana and drug paraphernalia possession, favorably to the full House. This was the committee’s first report of the bill; the corrected minutes of the April 9, 2021 meeting, which the committee authorized on April 29, 2021, record the record vote as 7 Ayes, 2 Nays, 0 present not voting and 0 absent.

The committee reconsidered the measure three days later and reported a substitute for it by a separate 7-1 record vote, and name them in the printed Ayes list as "Hinojosa".

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Voted Aye in the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence to report HB 2593, moving possession of tetrahydrocannabinols into a new penalty group whose lowest tiers are misdemeanors, out of one where any amount is a felony, favorably to the full House. The corrected minutes of the April 9, 2021 meeting, which the committee authorized on April 29, 2021, record the record vote as 7 Ayes, 2 Nays, 0 present not voting and 0 absent, and name them in the printed Ayes list as "Hinojosa".

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Voted Aye in House committee to report HB 441, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of marihuana and drug paraphernalia possession, favorably to the full House. The committee minutes record the vote as 7 ayes and 1 nays.

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Voted Aye in the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence to report HB 99, as substituted, making possession of two ounces or less of marihuana a Class C misdemeanor in place of a Class B, favorably to the full House. The committee minutes record the record vote as 7 Ayes, 1 Nay, 0 present not voting and 1 absent, and name them in the printed Ayes list as "Hinojosa".

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 384, House passage of HB 1694, creating a defence to prosecution for small-amount possession when a person seeks emergency help for an overdose, which carried 145 Yeas to 2 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 484, final House passage of HB 2593, moving possession of tetrahydrocannabinols into a new penalty group whose lowest tiers are misdemeanors, out of one where any amount is a felony, which carried 108 Yeas to 33 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 535, House passage of HB 1535, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis under the Compassionate-Use Program, which carried 134 Yeas to 12 Nays.

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Voted Aye in the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence to report HB 3772, as substituted, creating misdemeanor tiers for small amounts of marihuana concentrate, which the Health and Safety Code otherwise treats as a felony at any quantity, favorably to the full House. The committee minutes record the record vote as 8 Ayes, 1 Nay, 0 present not voting and 0 absent, and name them in the printed Ayes list as "Hinojosa".

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 596, third-reading passage of HB 441, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of marihuana and drug paraphernalia possession, which carried 88 Yeas to 40 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 663, third-reading passage of HB 3948, on the production and regulation of hemp and consumable hemp products, which carried 132 Yeas to 13 Nays, with 2 present and not voting.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HB 3948 (87th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

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Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 1688, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 1535, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion, which the Senate had narrowed, which carried 119 Yeas to 25 Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A Nay on concurring in the Senate’s changes to the bill. Refusing the Senate version and opposing the bill point opposite ways, and the record does not say which this was. Shown, not scored.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1759, adoption of the conference committee report on HB 2593, the final vote sending the tetrahydrocannabinol penalty bill to the Governor, which carried 95 Yeas to 44 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 143, passage to engrossment of CSHB 1805, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis, which carried 121 Yeas to 23 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 153, final House passage of HB 1805, widening the medical conditions qualifying for low-THC cannabis, which carried 127 Yeas to 19 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 203, third-reading passage of HB 513, increasing the penalty for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance or marihuana causing death or serious bodily injury. The bill passed, 140 Yeas to 2 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance or marihuana causing death or serious bodily injury; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty."

The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname. The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 49, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Gina Hinojosa.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 513 is on this site's unscored list: Increases the penalty for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance causing death or serious bodily injury. That is an overdose-death measure, not a question about lawful cannabis access, and scoring it either way would misrepresent the vote. The act is recorded without moving the score.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 605, third-reading passage of HB 218, reducing the criminal and licensing consequences of possessing marihuana and certain tetrahydrocannabinols, which carried 87 Yeas to 59 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 812, third-reading passage of HB 2818, on hemp production and research permits. The bill passed, 126 Yeas to 17 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the production and regulation of hemp; providing an administrative penalty; requiring a permit to conduct certain research involving hemp; authorizing a fee; creating a criminal offense." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 49, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Gina Hinojosa.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 2818 is on this site's unscored list: Hemp production and research permits. An agricultural measure whose direction on consumer access is not clear from the bill. The act is recorded without moving the score.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1421, third reading of HB 4918, on the processing, manufacture and sale of hemp products for smoking, which failed to pass 69-75 and was reconsidered later the same evening. The bill failed to pass, 69 Yeas to 75 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 49, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Gina Hinojosa.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: ⚠️This vote was annulled by the House itself, so it is shown and not counted. House Bill 4918 failed on this roll call, and the House then agreed to reconsider it later the same evening, after which the bill passed on Record Vote 1477. Only that final roll call moves the score. A member appearing both here and on Record Vote 1477 has not been recorded twice over: the House put the same question twice, and the second answer is the one that stood.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1476, the motion to reconsider the vote by which HB 4918, on hemp products for smoking, had failed to pass earlier that evening. The motion prevailed, 97 Yeas to 31 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 49, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Gina Hinojosa.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: ⚠️A procedural motion, not a position on the bill, so it is shown and not counted. This roll call is the motion to reconsider the vote by which House Bill 4918 had failed earlier the same evening; the motion prevailed 97 to 31 and the bill then passed on Record Vote 1477. A member may be willing to take a question again without that telling you what they think the answer is, which is why motions of this kind never move the score.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 1477, third reading of HB 4918, on the processing, manufacture and sale of hemp products for smoking, on the reconsidered vote, which passed 84-59. The bill passed, 84 Yeas to 59 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the processing, manufacture, and sale of hemp products for smoking." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa", the only entry in the roll bearing the surname.

The bare surname is resolved by seat: this member sits for House District 49, and Texas Legislature Online's member page for the 88th Legislature names that district's representative as Gina Hinojosa.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2168, the motion to concur in the Senate’s changes to HB 114, on the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events, the vote that finally passed it. The measure carried, 136 Yeas to 6 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events."

The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa"; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 88th House, who sat for House District 49.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: House Bill 114 is on this site’s unscored list: a school-discipline measure, not a cannabis-access measure. Its effect on cannabis is which school-discipline placement a student caught with marihuana receives — it moves marihuana into its own paragraph of Education Code Section 37.006(a)(2), out of the mandatory-expulsion trigger in Section 37.007(a)(3) and into the at-capacity in-school-suspension provision of Section 37.009(a-1) — and it does not change who may possess, buy, grow, prescribe or be prosecuted for cannabis.

The change the bill was carried for was adding e-cigarettes. Both of its record votes were near-unanimous and neither separates the candidates on this site: every one of the 97 who appear in the passage roll is in the Yeas. The act is recorded without moving the score.

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Recorded Yea on Record Vote 2184, passage to engrossment of CSHB 46, the Compassionate Use Program expansion, which carried 118 Yeas to 16 Nays. They are named in the printed Yea list in the Texas House Journal for that day.

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Voted Yea on final House passage of House Bill 46, which expanded the Texas Compassionate-Use Program for low-THC cannabis. The House Journal records it passed by Record Vote 2257, 122 Yeas to 21 Nays with 2 present not voting, and names her among the Yeas. She is not an author or coauthor of the bill.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2514, passage to engrossment of CSHB 4879, funding local law enforcement to test substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, which carried 121 Yeas to 15 Nays.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2495, passage of SB 1833, as amended, to third reading, on the use of a social media platform in furtherance of a controlled-substance delivery offence. The measure carried, 135 Yeas to 2 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa"; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 49.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Senate Bill 1833 is on this site’s unscored list: it raises the penalty for delivering any controlled substance when a social media platform is used to arrange the delivery, and the floor remarks describe it wholly as a response to counterfeit fentanyl pills sold to schoolchildren. The only cannabis-specific change the House made to it, Amendment No. 1, adopted immediately before Record Vote 2495, exempts delivery of four ounces of marihuana or less from the enhancement.

Its direction on cannabis access is therefore arguable, and the vote is recorded without moving the score.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2629, final House passage of HB 4879, funding local law enforcement to test substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, which carried 128 Yeas to 11 Nays.

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Filed a statement of vote printed in the House Journal regarding Record Vote 2629 on final House passage of HB 4879, funding local law enforcement to test substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, reading: "When Record No. 2629 was taken, I was shown voting yes. I intended to vote no."

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 2594, third-reading passage of SB 1833, on the use of a social media platform in furtherance of a controlled-substance delivery offence. The measure carried, 136 Yeas to 3 Nays. The bill is captioned "Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties." The journal prints this member in the Yea list as "Hinojosa"; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 49.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Senate Bill 1833 is on this site’s unscored list: it raises the penalty for delivering any controlled substance when a social media platform is used to arrange the delivery, and the floor remarks describe it wholly as a response to counterfeit fentanyl pills sold to schoolchildren. The only cannabis-specific change the House made to it, Amendment No. 1, adopted immediately before Record Vote 2495, exempts delivery of four ounces of marihuana or less from the enhancement.

Its direction on cannabis access is therefore arguable, and the vote is recorded without moving the score.

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During Texas House floor debate on the hemp-THC bill, questioned the sponsor of an amendment creating criminal penalties for possession. The House Journal Supplement, which prints the debate verbatim, records her: "Representative Moody, let me check for understanding. I was speaking to the author of the amendment because I’m trying to understand the overall amendment and then the impact of your amendment to the amendment.

Under the Oliverson amendment, we are criminalizing possession of hemp with THC?" and then: "Okay, so the amendment criminalizes the possession, and your amendment says it’s a different penalty—not a Class A misdemeanor for minors."

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Questions to a sponsor clarifying what an amendment criminalises. Probing a bill is not a stated position on it.

• Official Texas House broadcast, 69th Day, 21 May 2025 — the hemp-THC second-reading debate no timestamp foundthe official archive runs 11 hours 54 minutes with no caption or chapter index, so no offset could be found

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Voted Nay on passing the hemp-THC bill to third reading in the Texas House. The House Journal records it passed to third reading by Record Vote 3192, 95 Yeas to 44 Nays with 2 present not voting, and names her among the Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site’s scoring rules could not match this record to a bill in its published bill table, so it is shown but not counted.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 3190, adoption of Amendment No. 4 to CSSB 3, amending Amendment No. 2, rewriting the possession offence and its deferred-disposition and prior-conviction provisions, which carried 126 Yeas to 10 Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 3191, adoption of Amendment No. 2, as amended, to CSSB 3 — a complete substitute for everything below the enacting clause, and from that point the text of the bill, which carried 86 Yeas to 53 Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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Voted Nay on final passage of Senate Bill 3, the hemp-derived THC ban. Record Vote 3304 in the Texas House: 87 Yeas, 54 Nays, 1 present not voting. She is named in the printed Nays roll.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 3303, adoption of Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 on third reading, rewriting the possession offence in the bill and its eligibility for deferred disposition, which carried 108 Yeas to 30 Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A floor amendment does not take the direction of the bill it amends. Amendment No. 1 to SB 3 rewrote the possession offence downward while the bill itself restricted consumable hemp, so a Yea on the amendment and a Yea on the bill point opposite ways. This record is shown because the member is named in the journal, and it is kept out of the score because its direction is not ours to assert.

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Recorded Yea on Record Vote 4163, adoption of the conference committee report on HB 46, the Compassionate Use Program expansion, which carried 138 Yeas to 1 Nay. They are named in the printed Yea list in the Texas House Journal for that day.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 4162, adoption of HR 1523, suspending House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4) so that the HB 46 conference committee could add text providing that a physician may prescribe more than one package of low-THC cannabis in a 90-day period, which carried 128 Yeas to 12 Nays.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: A vote to suspend a House rule so that a conference committee may consider particular text is a vote about procedure, not a recorded position on the text. Shown, not scored.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 4164, adoption of SCR 56, the first of the two enrolling corrections to HB 46, which instructed the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives to make corrections in the enrolled text of HB 46, the Compassionate-Use Program expansion. The resolution was adopted 137 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, and the House Journal for the 80th Day names this member in the printed Yeas list.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score SCR 56 (89th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

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Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 4167, adoption of HCR 171, the second enrolling correction to HB 46, which instructed the enrolling clerk of the house to strike from the enrolled bill a sentence allowing low-THC cannabis prescribed for pulmonary inhalation to exceed one percent tetrahydrocannabinols by weight in each dosage unit. The resolution was adopted 138 Yeas to 0 Nays with 1 present not voting, and the House Journal for the 81st Day names this member in the printed Yeas list.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site deliberately does not score HCR 171 (89th Legislature), so a record on it moves no number.

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Answered the Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire in its 2026 voter guide. The paper asked every candidate in the race: "How has the reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule III drug complicated efforts to regulate THC products in Texas? What else needs to happen at the legislative level?" The answer given was: "More than 100,000 Texans, including many veterans, already use marijuana to treat conditions like PTSD, cancer, and epilepsy.

I believe we should hold a ballot referendum so the people of Texas have an opportunity to decide for themselves if we legalize marijuana." They continued: "If legalized, the state should route the money that comes from setting up a well-regulated legalized marijuana market into making sure we do the basics right: well-funded neighborhood public schools, access to affordable, high-quality health care, and infrastructure that is built to withstand the impacts of severe weather events."

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Quoted in a cannabis-policy newsletter as having posted: "Texans should know whether the THC gummies they bought last month are legal or whether they’re a felony. Greg Abbott is playing politics with our laws. When I’m governor, I’ll let the people vote."

⚠️The date is the newsletter’s, not the post’s: the original post was not located, so the date it was written is unknown and this is the date it was reported.

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Published a policy statement headed "The War on Hemp", carrying the site's own publication date of August 19, 2026. It states "In Texas we have a war on hemp." and "Dan Patrick tried to outlaw the hemp business in the recent legislative session.", says of Senate Bill 3 that it would have effectively eliminated the existing Texas market for intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, applauds the veto of that bill, and adds: "But I believe Texas should go further: adults should be free to make their own choices, provided they don't harm others."

It also describes the 2026-07-31 Department of State Health Services reclassification of delta-8 and argues that "A free market requires predictable rules, respect for property rights, and the freedom to succeed or fail without government picking the winners."

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Submitted the Marijuana Policy Project and Texas Cannabis Policy Center 2026 candidate survey and published the submission receipt on his campaign site, the receipt dated August 28, 2026. The survey asked about expanding medical cannabis to flower, reducing penalties for possession of THC hemp products to a civil fine of up to $100, whether cannabis and THC products should be legal to possess for adults 21 and older, and whether a legal regulated adult-use market should be created.

His written comment on each of the four questions is "I am a Libertarian".

⚠️One limit on this entry: the receipt renders its selected Yes/No buttons as vector graphics rather than text, so which box he ticked on each question cannot be read from the document. Only his written comments are quoted here, and no position is inferred from the unreadable selections.

WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: The submission receipt records that he answered the survey, but its Yes and No selections cannot be read from the document, so no direction can be taken from it.

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Published his answers to the Texas Cannabis Policy Questionnaire on his own campaign site, the post carrying the site's own publication date of September 29, 2026 and naming TexasCannabis.org as the questioner. Asked "What is your position on legalizing adult-use, or recreational, cannabis in Texas?" he answered: "It should be legal. End the war on drugs." On the medical programme he wrote: "The current status seems burdensome and complicated.", and drew an analogy to the ending of alcohol prohibition On patient registration he wrote: "Yes, I support elimination of restrictions for adults to make their own decisions, just as they do for alcohol."

On past convictions he wrote: "All convictions for cannabis crimes should be automatically expunged." On public safety he wrote: "Impaired driving should be illegal and well enforced as it is for alcohol, which is also a drug."

⚠️This is a self-published copy of his own answers on his own site; the questioning organisation's published version of the responses was not located.

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