Texas House, District 126
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.
No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. 2 limits on that search are recorded with it.
What was checked for Stan Stanart, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: the member-level rolls of every 2025 cannabis and hemp record vote in the official Texas House and Senate Journals — SB 3 and HB 46 in the regular session, SB 5 in the first called session and SB 6 in the second — including every Yea, Nay, present-not-voting, absent and statement-of-vote list, where this name does not appear because they hold no Texas legislative office; the author, joint-author, coauthor and sponsor tables of every cannabis, hemp, THC and Compassionate Use bill filed in the 87th, 88th and 89th Legislatures and the 2025 called sessions, at the Legislature's own bill-lookup service; and a press sweep including the Spectrum News report on the March 2026 Austin candidate forum on THC policy, which quotes six candidates by name and does not include them.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Stan_Stanart, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.
The candidate's own campaign site was read on 2026-09-20 at hd126.stanstanart.com — found by search and confirmed to name this candidate before it was attributed to them. 9 pages were read: the homepage, any JavaScript bundle it loads, and the pages linked from it. None contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️This covers the reachable site, not necessarily the whole site: a page that nothing links to cannot be found this way, and at least one Texas candidate keeps their platform on exactly such a page.
Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/Stan_Stanart (26989 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. When we re-read their Ballotpedia profile on 2026-10-15, it recorded that they completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey in 2026; those answers, which they wrote themselves, contain no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
When we read the profile on 2026-09-20 it recorded that they had not yet completed it, which is what this card said until now.
The site's own sitemap was read on 2026-09-21, which reaches pages nothing links to. Their campaign site publishes a sitemap listing 21 page(s), of which 21 were read — the sweep skips assets and archive listings rather than prose — and none of those pages contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use.
⚠️This card does not tell you whether this candidate held a seat in an earlier Legislature, but the question is now narrower. Read on 2026-10-15, from each chamber’s own journal: the roll of members-elect that the Texas House Journal prints, district by district, on the first day of every regular session from the 75th Legislature (1997) through the 89th (2025), and every senator the Texas Senate Journal names with a district on the first day of every regular session from the 76th (1999) through the 89th.
For the 89th those are journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/pdf/89RDAY01FINAL.PDF and journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM and every journal read is listed on this site’s corrections page. No one by this candidate’s name appears in any of them. That is narrower than a negative answer. Those rolls name the members seated as each session opened, and in most years the Senate’s names the senators who were not up for election by surname alone, so a member who sat only in earlier sessions, who arrived at a special election and was never named in full on a later first day, or who served under another name would not be found this way.
If this candidate is one of those, there may be a cannabis voting record this site is missing.
Also checked on 2026-10-05: the Texas Hemp Business Council’s published 2026 candidate questionnaire roster at texashempbusinesscouncil.com/wp-json/thbc/v1/candidate-responses and texashempbusinesscouncil.com/candidate-responses. The council is a hemp industry trade association; it put twenty questions about hemp and THC policy to 221 named candidates for the Texas Legislature and statewide office, this candidate among them, and publishes the answers it receives.
On the date checked the council’s own roster recorded this candidate’s status as "awaiting" and carried no answers from them; 30 of the 221 had answered by that date and this candidate was not one of them. The council states that answers are added as they are completed, so this records only what the roster showed on 2026-10-05.
This card has been corrected. What an earlier version of it said, and what was wrong with it, is published in the corrections log.
No score: this candidate has no recorded vote or bill authorship on a cannabis measure. Silence is not a position, so nothing is inferred from it.
Campaign sites and voter guides checked for Stan Stanart
Pages read in full:
- hd126.stanstanart.com their own site — sections on the page: Read 2026-09-20. No cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC, CBD or Compassionate Use anywhere on the page.
- communityimpact.com/spring-klein/election/qa-meet-the-candidates-for-texas-house-district-126 — sections on the page: Read 2026-10-15, HTTP 200. Community Impact's candidate Q&A for the November 2026 general election in Texas House District 126, published 2026-08-25. This candidate's answers are printed. The 5 questions put to every candidate were: “What would your top priorities be if elected?”; “What do you see as the greatest challenge for the northwest Harris County area in the next 5 years?”; “What will you do to support small businesses and promote economic growth in Texas?”; “How do you plan to involve residents in the decision-making process?”; “How will you balance the development of data centers and other large projects with constituent concerns about rapid growth?”. None of the questions, and none of the answers printed on the page, contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71558338 — sections on the page: The League of Women Voters’ VOTE411 voter guide page for this seat, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It lists 2 candidates, the same field as the November 2026 ballot, this candidate among them as Stan Stanart (Rep). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What are the two most pressing issues unique to your district, and what specific, measurable actions would you take to address them during your term? / Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. What steps would you take as a state representative to ensure access to affordable healthcare, including mental health services, for residents who are currently uninsured or underserved in your district? / What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for this position? / What measures would you support to ensure adequate state funding for public schools and accountability for taxpayer funds used in voucher or education savings account programs? Not one asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered 4 of 4 questions in free text of their own, and no answer under their name contains, on a word boundary, cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, SB 3, Senate Bill 3 or HB 46.
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.
- 2026-09-10 questionnaire — Chose "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal hemp marketplace and answered that regulation is preferable to prohibition, counted as +2 at weight 2
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.
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Questionnaire2026-09-10
Said a regulated Texas hemp market could be a competitive industry under basic safety and labelling rules, 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 think that Texas' hemp industry could be a competitive, regulated market that supports people all over the state, whether they own a small business, farm, or are using hemp products. With some basic legislation to make sure products are safe and sold to adults with proper labeling and dosages supported by scientific data, it can be a booming business in Texas that is law-abiding and safe for consumers."
Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom and with what safeguards: "Small businesses who are able to get the permits by following all of the rules and standards set out by the Texas legislature should be able to sell THC products to adults in the appropriate doses in the forms specified by legislation with appropriate labeling, packaging, dosages, and occasional testing for accuracy on the labels. There should be penalties for businesses, like with cigarettes and alcohol, for selling to minors or not having appropriate labels, etc." 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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