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Texas House, District 107

A Dallas-Fort Worth area district. One candidate is on this ballot — the certified list carries no opponent from any party, and the minor-party sweep that found Libertarian and Green legislative nominees elsewhere in Texas found none here. 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.

Linda GarciaDemocratIncumbent
67/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 strong — six or more records produced this number · 6 of 14 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.

  • 2025-05-22 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — voted, counted as +2 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-21 Consumable hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids SB 3 — voted, counted as +2 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-15 Grant programme for testing suspected THC HB 4879 — voted, counted as -1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-14 Grant programme for testing suspected THC HB 4879 — voted, counted as -1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-13 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 3
  • 2025-05-12 Texas Compassionate-Use Program HB 46 — voted, counted as +1 at weight 3

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 0.667. Full method and the bill table.

  • Vote2025-05-12

    Voted Yea as CSHB 46 (89R) was passed to engrossment on Record Vote 2184, 118-16, on 2025-05-12.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-13

    Voted Yea as HB 46 (89R) was passed on third reading on Record Vote 2257, 122-21, on 2025-05-13.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-14

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-14

    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 "Garcia, L."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 107.

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-15

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov, capitol.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-15

    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 "Garcia, L."; the printed form is matched to this member against the whole membership of the 89th House, who sat for House District 107.

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-21

    Voted Nay as CSSB 3 (89R) was passed to third reading on Record Vote 3192, 95-44, on 2025-05-21.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-21

    Texas House: recorded Yea on Record Vote 3188, adoption of Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 3, the consumable-hemp bill, offered by its House sponsor, deferring the licensing requirements the bill adds until January 1, 2027, which carried 136 Yeas to 0 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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-21

    Texas House: recorded Nay on Record Vote 3189, adoption of Amendment No. 3 to CSSB 3, amending Amendment No. 2, exempting low-THC cannabis regulated under Chapter 487 and hemp research at medical schools, hospitals and institutions of higher education, which carried 102 Yeas to 24 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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-21

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-21

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-22

    Voted Nay as SB 3 (89R) was passed on Record Vote 3304, 87-54, on 2025-05-22.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-05-22

    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.

    journals.house.texas.gov

  • Vote2025-06-01

    Was recorded Absent, Excused on Record Vote 4163 of 2025-06-01, when the conference committee report on HB 46 (89R) was adopted 138-1; she filed no statement of vote on that record.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but not counted in the score: This site scores a vote only on a recorded Yea or Nay, and reads no direction into an absence or a present-not-voting.

    journals.house.texas.gov

All 1 candidates on this ballot are listed.