# Tom Craddick

Tom Craddick is a Republican member of the Texas House for district 82.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Texas House, district 82
- Serving since: 1993-01-12
- Current term: TX 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d4d5c127-1ef6-445d-a89b-d9f02c812365

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d4d5c127-1ef6-445d-a89b-d9f02c812365 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

74% of the 65 bills Craddick sponsored got out of committee, in the top 5% of the Texas House.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.33 (standard error 0.01), from 145 donors and 879 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 47% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (TX 2025–26 session)

3,701 roll calls. Attendance 96.8% (Texas House 93.1%). Party unity 69% (85%). 255 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · passage · HB 1 Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties. · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB1/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · passage · SB 1 Relating to campground and youth camp safety. · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/SB1/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · passage · HB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB8/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · adopt the conference committee report on SB 5. · SB 5 Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/SB5/
- 2025-09-03 · voted nay · passage · HB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB8/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · concur in the senate amendments to HB 20. · HB 20 Relating to measures to prevent and reduce fraudulent charitable solicitations and theft during declared disasters, including establishing a designation… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB20/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · passage · SB 1 Relating to campground and youth camp safety. · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/SB1/
- 2025-09-03 · voted yea · concur in the senate amendments to HB 1. · HB 1 Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties. · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB1/
- 2025-09-02 · voted yea · passage · SB 54 Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/SB54/
- 2025-09-02 · voted yea · passage · HB 18 Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature… · pass · https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HB18/

## Legislation (TX 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 65 bills: 61 reached committee, 48 passed one chamber, 39 passed both, 37 became law. Cosponsored 53. 73.9% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Texas House 48.5%; rank 7 of 145).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HCR 20: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of St. Ann's Catholic School in Midland. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR20/
- HCR 16: Congratulating Barbara Jean Bolden Yarbrough of Midland on the occasion of her 90th birthday. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR16/
- HCR 8: Congratulating Charles and Margaret Semple of Midland on their 60th wedding anniversary. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR8/
- HCR 4: Congratulating Rickey and Anne Lowe of Horseshoe Bay on their 47th wedding anniversary. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR4/
- HCR 5: Congratulating Don Sparks of Midland on receiving the 2025 Chief Roughneck Award from the Independent Petroleum Association of America. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR5/
- HCR 6: Congratulating the Senior Life Midland Meals on Wheels program on delivering its five millionth meal. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR6/
- HCR 3: Commemorating the dedication of the Children's Emergency Relief International George M. Cowden Building in Austin. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR3/
- HCR 7: In memory of Richard Augustus Hewitt of San Antonio. (became law, 2025-09-17) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/892/HCR7/
- HCR 9: Congratulating Charles and Margaret Semple of Midland on their 60th wedding anniversary. (introduced, 2025-08-01) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/891/HCR9/
- HCR 5: In memory of Richard Augustus Hewitt of San Antonio. (introduced, 2025-07-23) https://openstates.org/tx/bills/891/HCR5/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $267.2K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.house.texas.gov/members/member-page/?district=82
- X: https://x.com/tomcraddick
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-craddick-46a89270/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d4d5c127-1ef6-445d-a89b-d9f02c812365