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Running forState House, District 82

Tom Craddick

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Overview

Thomas Russell Craddick Sr. is an American politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1969.

Facts from Wikipedia.

How to reach them
Source: Open States

Bills they wrote

Bills and joint resolutions where they're the main author, since 2023. Laws first, then the ones that got furthest.

Wrote

24 bills

Became law

3 became law. Another 15 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced Feb 19, 2025HB 3033: Relating to a grant program for nonprofit organizations supporting employees of the Department of Public Safety; authorizing voluntary contributions.
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025HB 2286: Relating to the renewal of a certificate of registration by certain interior designers.
    Became law
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 206: Relating to a limitation on a county's authority to require a cash bond before approving the construction of a pipeline.
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 18, 2025HB 2974: Relating to municipal and county hotel occupancy taxes and the authority of certain municipalities to receive certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project and to pledge certain tax revenue for the payment of obligations related to the project; authorizing the imposition of taxes.
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Mar 14, 2025HB 5453: Relating to the selection, prioritization, construction, and funding of transportation projects.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 4, 2025HB 3707: Relating to the inspection, purchase, sale, possession, storage, transportation, and disposal of petroleum products, oil and gas equipment, and oil and gas waste; creating criminal offenses and increasing the punishment for an existing criminal offense.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Feb 21, 2025HB 3199: Relating to the requirement that certain ad valorem tax-related notices be delivered to a property owner by certified mail.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025HB 2825: Relating to sales and use tax rates and refunds for certain tangible personal property used to provide cable television services, Internet access services, or telecommunications services; reducing the rate of the state sales and use tax applicable to certain taxable items.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Feb 5, 2025HB 2494: Relating to disannexation of certain areas of a municipality for failure to provide services.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Jan 17, 2025HB 1937: Relating to certain tax and fee collection procedures and taxpayer suits.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Dec 6, 2024HB 1536: Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 1186: Relating to the entitlement of certain municipalities to receive tax revenue from certain establishments located near a hotel and convention center project.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 355: Relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice Department must accept custody of a person committed to the department and to the consequences for the failure of the department to accept custody of the person within that period.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 265: Relating to the allocation of certain constitutional transfers of money to the economic stabilization fund, the state highway fund, and the Grow Texas fund and to the permissible uses of money deposited to the Grow Texas fund.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HJR 35: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of and use of money in the Grow Texas fund and allocating certain general revenues to that fund, the economic stabilization fund, and the state highway fund.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4930: Relating to the adoption of a climate policy in a municipal charter.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Feb 22, 2023HB 2644: Relating to the definition of qualified employee for purposes of the enterprise zone program.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2023HB 1392: Relating to the allocation of certain constitutional transfers of money to the economic stabilization fund, the state highway fund, and the Grow Texas fund and to the permissible uses of money deposited to the Grow Texas fund.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025HB 3772: Relating to the sale of certain e-cigarettes in this state and a directory of e-cigarette manufacturers and their products; authorizing fees; authorizing administrative and civil penalties; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 21, 2025HB 5: Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 21, 2025HJR 3: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of dementia and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 19, 2025HB 3034: Relating to the enforcement of the prohibition on passing a school bus using images and video from a school bus infraction detection system.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2023HB 3947: Relating to the improper taxation of properties in certain areas that do not receive full municipal services.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2023HB 1246: Relating to disannexation of certain areas that do not receive full municipal services.
    Introduced

Source: Open States

How they voted

Final votes on bills that passed either chamber of the Texas legislature, since 2025. Votes on amendments, committees, and procedure are left out.

Votes shown

1,793 votes on bills that passed at least one chamber.

Attendance

Didn't vote on 13 of 1,793 votes (less than 1%). Some of these may be excused absences, approved by the House ahead of time. The vote records we use don't say which.

By topic
Academic and Career-Oriented Education7 votes
    Agriculture and Livestock21 votes
      Appropriations7 votes
        Border Security4 votes
          Business and Commerce82 votes
            Congressional Redistricting, Select1 vote
              Corrections22 votes
                County and Regional Government36 votes
                  Courts and Civil Law (Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence)76 votes
                    Courts and Civil Law (Jurisprudence)19 votes
                      Criminal Justice80 votes
                        Criminal Law (Criminal Jurisprudence)57 votes
                          Culture, Recreation and Tourism22 votes
                            Defense and Veterans' Affairs17 votes
                              Dis Prev and Women's and Children's Health16 votes
                                Disaster Preparedness and Flooding13 votes
                                  Disaster Preparedness and Flooding, Select1 vote
                                    Economic Development16 votes
                                      Education K-1654 votes
                                        Elections23 votes
                                          Energy Resources18 votes
                                            Environmental Regulation22 votes
                                              Family and Fiduciary Relationships41 votes
                                                Finance4 votes
                                                  Government Efficiency67 votes
                                                    Health and Human Services59 votes
                                                      Higher Education50 votes
                                                        Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs55 votes
                                                          Human Services55 votes
                                                            Insurance37 votes
                                                              Intergovernmental Affairs39 votes
                                                                International Relations1 vote
                                                                  Juvenile Justice11 votes
                                                                    Land and Resource Management20 votes
                                                                      Licensing and Administrative Procedures37 votes
                                                                        Local Government53 votes
                                                                          Natural Resources58 votes
                                                                            Pensions, Investments and Financial Services43 votes
                                                                              Property Tax Appraisals13 votes
                                                                                Public Education56 votes
                                                                                  Public Health73 votes
                                                                                    State Affairs144 votes
                                                                                      State-Federal Relations1 vote
                                                                                        Taxes (Ways and Means)84 votes
                                                                                          Trade, Workforce and Economic Development38 votes
                                                                                            Transportation67 votes
                                                                                              Transportation Funding8 votes
                                                                                                Veterans' Affairs9 votes
                                                                                                  Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs43 votes
                                                                                                    Workforce13 votes

                                                                                                      Source: Open States, Texas Legislature Online. Topics from the state legislature.