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TexasTexas House, District 88

A Central, South or West Texas district. 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.

Ken KingRepublicanIncumbent
  • Coauthored2023-04-12

    Signed on as coauthor of HB 1805 (88R), relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions, per the per-member Date Signed On column.

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  • Authored2025-03-13

    Filed HB 4879 (89R) as primary author, creating a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in testing substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol.

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  • Authored2025-03-14

    Filed HB 46 (89R) as primary author, relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program.

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  • Authored2025-03-14

    Filed HB 28 (89R) as sole author, relating to the regulation of consumable hemp products and the transfer of regulatory functions; the bill was left pending in the Committee on State Affairs on 2025-04-07.

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  • Authored2025-05-12

    Offered Amendment No. 1 to CSHB 46 on second reading, adding satellite-location and dispensing-organization licensing provisions and pulmonary-inhalation dosage language; the amendment was adopted.

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  • Vote2025-05-12

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 2184, passage of CSHB 46 to engrossment as amended, 118-16, House Journal 62nd Day page 4114.

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  • Vote2025-05-13

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 2257, final passage of HB 46 on third reading, 122-21, House Journal 63rd Day page 4252.

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  • Authored2025-05-21

    Appeared in the House Journal as House sponsor of CSSB 3 on second reading, the intoxicating-hemp regulation bill authored in the Senate by Perry; SB 3 had been received from the Senate on 2025-03-20.

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  • Said2025-05-21

    Moved to postpone consideration of CSSB 3 until 4 p.m. that day; the motion prevailed, House Journal 69th Day.

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  • Authored2025-05-21

    Offered Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 3, striking '302' and substituting '305' among other changes and adding a January 1, 2027 compliance deferral for certain Alcoholic Beverage Code licensees; House Journal 69th Day page 5548.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3188, adoption of his own Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 3, 136-0, House Journal 69th Day page 5552.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3189, adoption of Amendment No. 3 by Oliverson amending Amendment No. 2 to CSSB 3, 102-24, House Journal 69th Day page 5563.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3190, adoption of Amendment No. 4 by Moody amending Amendment No. 2 to CSSB 3, 126-10, House Journal 69th Day page 5566.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Nay on Record Vote 3191, adoption of Amendment No. 2 as amended to CSSB 3, the Oliverson-led substitute replacing everything below the enacting clause, 86-53, House Journal 69th Day page 5567.

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  • Vote2025-05-21

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3192, passage of CSSB 3 as amended to third reading, 95-44, House Journal 69th Day page 5568.

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  • Said2025-05-22

    Moved to postpone consideration of SB 3 until 3 p.m. that day; the motion prevailed, House Journal 70th Day.

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  • Said2025-05-22

    Moved a second time that day to postpone consideration of SB 3, until 6:15 p.m.; the motion prevailed, House Journal 70th Day.

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  • Vote2025-05-22

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3303, adoption of Amendment No. 1 by Moody to SB 3 on third reading, 108-30, House Journal 70th Day page 5700.

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  • Vote2025-05-22

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 3304, final passage of SB 3 as amended, 87-54, House Journal 70th Day page 5701.

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  • Authored2025-05-30

    Named to the House conference committee on HB 46 when the House refused to concur in Senate amendments and requested a conference committee, House Journal page 7451.

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  • Authored2025-06-01

    Submitted the conference committee report on HB 46 to the House as a House conferee and moved to adopt it, House Journal 80th Day page 7895.

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  • Vote2025-06-01

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 4162, adoption of HR 1523 suspending House Rule 13 Section 9(a)(4) to let the HB 46 conference committee add text allowing a physician to prescribe more than one package of low-THC cannabis in a 90-day period, 128-12, House Journal 80th Day page 7894.

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  • Vote2025-06-01

    Recorded Yea on Record Vote 4163, adoption of the conference committee report on HB 46, 138-1, House Journal 80th Day page 7902.

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No record compiled yet. 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.

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