Texas House, District 15
A district in the Houston suburbs. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in a 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. What each candidate has said or answered is listed below in date order, each with its own source.
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 Brad Bailey, 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.
The candidate's own campaign site was read on 2026-09-20 at bradbaileycampaign.com — found by search and confirmed to name this candidate before it was attributed to them. 8 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. 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 had not completed Ballotpedia’s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.
The site's own sitemap was read on 2026-09-21, which reaches pages nothing links to. Their campaign site publishes a sitemap listing 3 page(s), of which 1 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.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Brad_Bailey_(Texas), which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, 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 Brad Bailey
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=71500402 — sections on the page: Background; Qualifications; Education; Healthcare; Elections; Economy; Water; Other Priorities — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer of theirs 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, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
- bradbaileycampaign.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/the-woodlands/election/q-a-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-state-house-district-15 — sections on the page: Community Impact's candidate Q&A for this November race, published 2026-09-25, read in full by us on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). The paper put its own questions to each candidate and printed the answers it received. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer printed 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, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3 or HB 46. The word hemp does appear on the page, in another candidate's answer.
No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. One limit on that search is recorded with it.
What was checked for Moniqua' S. Scott, 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.
⚠️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.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Moniqua'_Scott, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.
Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at www.scottforhd15.com — 10 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 16,690 characters of text in all. The site is headed "Scott for House District 15" and names her as Moniqua’ Scott. The extracted text of those pages contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, Compassionate Use, delta-8, delta-9, dispensary, decriminalize, cannabinoid or psilocybin.
This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, 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 Moniqua' S. Scott
Pages read in full:
- onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=71500402 — sections on the page: Background; Qualifications; Education; Healthcare; Elections; Economy; Water; Other Priorities — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. ⚠️Against every question this Candidate's entry reads "Candidate has not yet responded", so this records an unanswered questionnaire and not a silence of their own choosing. Their entry carries no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
- www.scottforhd15.com their own site — sections on the page: the whole of this candidate's own campaign site as this guide read it — 10 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 16,690 characters of text in all. This row was built on 2026-10-12 out of the sentence above it in this card's own search log, which named the address and said it had been read while the list beside it did not. It records no reading that the log had not already published.
- communityimpact.com/the-woodlands/election/q-a-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-state-house-district-15 — sections on the page: Community Impact's candidate Q&A for this November race, published 2026-09-25, read in full by us on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). The paper put its own questions to each candidate and printed the answers it received. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer printed 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, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3 or HB 46. The word hemp does appear on the page, in another candidate's answer.
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.
- 2026-09-25 statement — Stated she would oppose any legislation codifying the ban on the hemp industry, which is a position against the ban rather than a description of it. Scored the same as other candidates in this guide who stated opposition to the hemp ban on small-business grounds. It is a statement about hemp-derived THC, not about marijuana law generally, and she has no voting record because she has not held this office, counted as +2 at weight 2
- 2026-09-23 questionnaire — Answered "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, wrote that she opposes unnecessary government prohibition of lawful products, and said she prefers regulation addressing demonstrable safety risks to prohibition because government disapproves of a product, counted as +2 at weight 2
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.
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Questionnaire2026-09-23
Said Texas should have a hemp industry "built on free markets, consumer choice, and reasonable/minimal regulation", 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: "Texas should have a hemp industry built on free markets, consumer choice, and reasonable/minimal regulation. I support a clear, statewide framework that allows qualified businesses to compete while protecting consumers through age restrictions, testing, accurate labeling, dosage standards, child-resistant packaging, and meaningful enforcement against contaminated, mislabeled, or unlawful products.
Regulation should be consistent, transparent, and proportionate to the actual risks involved. Licensing and fees should be reasonable/minimal and tied to the cost of administration. Texas farmers and businesses should be free to participate in this legitimate agricultural and commercial market without unnecessary government interference." Asked who should be permitted to sell THC, to whom, at what dose, in what form and subject to what safeguards: "Qualified, licensed retailers should be permitted to sell regulated THC products to adults 21 and older, subject to reasonable safeguards.
Products should be clearly labeled, independently tested for potency and contaminants, sold in standardized doses and child-resistant packaging, and prohibited from being marketed to minors. The goal should be consumer safety and accountability without unnecessary government restrictions on lawful adult choices." On keeping a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, the comments read: "Yes. I support a legal, regulated marketplace for hemp and hemp-derived products and oppose unnecessary government prohibition of lawful products."
Asked why regulation is or is not preferable to prohibition: "I prefer regulation to address demonstrable safety risks versus prohibition simply because the government disapproves of a product." 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 hemp agriculture, "Strongly Support"; on retail regulation, "Reasonable statewide licensing/registration"; on tax policy, "Depends on the proposed tax"; on consumer choice, "Yes".
The date is the date the council recorded the submission, in Central time.
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Said2026-09-25
Said she would oppose writing the hemp ban into law, in a candidate questionnaire published by Community Impact. The paper asked her what she would do to support small businesses and promote economic growth; cannabis was not the question, and the hemp sentence is how she chose to end the answer. She answered in full: "Texas should foster an environment where entrepreneurs can succeed without unnecessary government interference.
I’ll support legislation to reduce taxes, eliminate burdensome regulations, and protect property rights. Small businesses thrive when government gets out of their way. I will oppose any legislation aimed at codifying the ban on the hemp industry." The paper put the same questions to all three candidates in this race and printed the answers it received; neither of her opponents mentioned hemp, THC or cannabis anywhere in it.
All 3 candidates on this ballot are listed.