US House, District 8
A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Waller County, most of Montgomery County, part of south-east Walker County and part of west Harris County. No cannabis or hemp record was found for any candidate on this ballot, in Congress or in the Texas Legislature. Each was checked against the sources listed on their pages.
Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the 120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by population — 61% of it was inside district 8 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 10 (32%), district 2 (3.3%), district 17 (1.8%) and district 7 (1.3%). Your own district may have changed number without your address changing. Check your own address in the district finder.
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 Jessica Hart Steinmann, and the limits on it
Checked on 2026-09-18: their campaign site including its issues and memo pages and its sitemap, read in full.
Also checked: their Ballotpedia entry, recorded here on 2026-09-18 as unretrievable and since read in full (see below); the Fort Worth Report 2026 questionnaire series, which asked candidates directly about THC products but covered only districts 6, 12 and 24; the Spectrum News report of 2026-03-03 on Texas candidates and THC policy, which does not name them; and the full membership roll of the 89th Texas Legislature, where they do not appear.
The candidate's own campaign site was read on 2026-09-20 at www.jessicasteinmann.com — found by search and confirmed to name this candidate before it was attributed to them. 6 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.
The site's own sitemap was read on 2026-09-21, which reaches pages nothing links to. Their campaign site publishes a sitemap listing 9 page(s), of which 7 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, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Jessica_Steinmann, 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 Jessica Hart Steinmann
Pages read in full:
- www.jessicasteinmann.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. Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 9 pages read at HTTP 200 (the homepage, the site’s sitemaps, every page it links to one level down, and the pages under its issues and news sections). No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, rescheduling, Schedule iii, safer Banking or decriminalisation term on a word boundary in the text or the raw page source of any page read. The same crawler, run the same day from each homepage, found the published cannabis planks on three campaign sites used as controls.
- communityimpact.com/spring-klein/election/qa-meet-the-candidates-for-us-house-district-8 — sections on the page: Community Impact’s candidate Q&A for this November race, published 2026-09-01, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (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, SB 3, Senate Bill 3 or HB 46. No cannabis question was asked, and no candidate in the race mentions any of those words anywhere on the page.
- onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=71560477 — 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 Jessica Hart Steinmann (Rep). The page prints no election date and no date for any answer. The questions were: What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district? / If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing? / What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented? / What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why? Not one asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. ⚠️The Candidate has not answered: the guide shows every question under their name as “Candidate has not yet responded.” This records an unanswered questionnaire, not a silence of their own choosing.
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.
- 2020-02-16 questionnaire — Wrote in a candidate survey that it is important to legalize marijuana and grow hemp, arguing that cultivation could sustain small rural Texas towns, counted as +2 at weight 0.6
Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.
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Questionnaire2020-02-16
Answered the Texas Marijuana Policy Voter Guide candidate survey as a candidate in the Democratic primary for the same seat, U.S. House District 8, and wrote in the comments box, in full: "I think it is important that we legalize marijuana and grow hemp. Texas has plenty of land to grow this product. Small, rural Texas towns are in dire need of Industry and the growth of marijuana can help save these towns." The guide states that "Answers provided have been unedited."
It was compiled, published and funded by Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, and says Texas NORML originated the guide in 2012.
⚠️The response itself carries no date. The guide is the 2020 Primary Election Edition for an election day of 2020-03-03; the date recorded here is the Last-Modified date the publisher's own server returns for the guide file (Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:52:13 GMT), which is the earliest date on which this answer is provably on the public record, not the date she gave it.
⚠️The four tick-box answers beside her name did not survive text extraction and are not reported here; a secondary account of this guide states that she answered all four in favour, and that account is not relied on. Only the comment above, which the guide prints as her unedited words, is recorded.
⚠️Identity. The guide gives her campaign address as laurajonesforcongress@gmail.com in the District 8 Democratic primary; the 2026 Democratic nominee for the same district is the same Laura Jones, who also sought the seat in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
All 2 candidates on this ballot are listed.