North Carolina Senate

David Craven

RepublicanSenator · District 29

david.craven@ncleg.gov

Running for Reelection · November 2026

Election Day: November 3, 2026 · Register to vote at ncsbe.gov

North Carolina Senate

David Craven

RepublicanSenator · District 29

david.craven@ncleg.gov

Running for Reelection · November 2026

Election Day: November 3, 2026 · Register to vote at ncsbe.gov

Bills Sponsored

Bills Cosponsored

691

Votes Cast

100%

Party Unity Score

Sponsored Bills (20)

S595Passed

Various Revenue Laws Changes

This comprehensive bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's revenue laws. Key provisions include conforming partnership tax audits to federal standards with partnership-level taxation, expanding the highway use tax to peer-to-peer vehicle rentals, shifting vapor product enforcement to the ABC enforcement division, enhancing tax collection tools, providing tax relief for Hurricane Helene timber casualties, updating credit union regulations, and making various technical adjustments to tax administration.

Senate2026-07-02

S675Engrossed

Charitable Orgs. Privacy Protection Act

This bill allows charitable organizations with tax-exempt status to collect nonprobate assets (like life insurance, retirement accounts, and securities) left to them by deceased donors by submitting an affidavit to the asset holder, rather than going through probate court. The bill also prohibits asset holders from requesting personal information about the charity's employees or board members and provides legal remedies if asset holders unreasonably refuse to transfer the property.

Senate2026-07-01

S1057Engrossed

Required Disclosures/Proxy Advisory Services

This bill requires proxy advisory services operating in North Carolina to disclose whether their voting recommendations are based on written financial analyses. If recommendations against company management are not based on financial analysis, proxy advisors must clearly inform shareholders and company boards; if they are based on financial analysis, they must make the analysis available upon request. Violations are treated as unfair and deceptive trade practices.

Senate2026-06-29

S1062Introduced

Commuter Transportation Study/Piedmont Triad

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation to conduct a study on improving commuter transportation in the Piedmont Triad region (Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem). The study will evaluate commuter rail, bus rapid transit, regional bus systems, and roadway expansion options, along with governance structures, funding mechanisms, and land use impacts, with results due by December 2026. The state will allocate $250,000 to fund this study.

Senate2026-05-06

S693Engrossed

Veteran Access, Liberty, Options for Recovery

This bill regulates how people can charge fees for helping veterans navigate benefits claims. It limits contingency fees to five times the monthly benefit increase, prohibits upfront charges, requires written agreements with specific disclosures, and bans aggressive solicitation and deceptive guarantees. Attorneys licensed in North Carolina are exempt from these restrictions.

Senate2026-04-29

S311Passed

The Law and Order Act

The Law and Order Act makes multiple changes to North Carolina criminal law, including increasing penalties for assaults on utility workers and street racing, creating new offenses for possessing explosives, stealing gift cards, and possessing embalming fluid, enhancing burglary sentences when firearms are involved, and establishing workplace protections against mass picketing. The bill also adds a mitigating factor for impaired driving cases where defendants voluntarily install ignition interlock systems before trial, and shortens the waiting period for misdemeanor expunction from five to three years.

Senate2025-07-09

S706Passed

County Waste Management Assistance

This bill restores and increases state assistance to counties and municipalities for cleaning up scrap tires by reestablishing the Scrap Tire Disposal Account and increasing the percentage of scrap tire tax revenue directed to local government grants from 50% to 75%. The bill also dedicates more funding specifically to help local governments manage tire disposal problems.

Senate2025-07-07

S690Passed

Various Real Estate and Business Law Changes

This bill makes four main changes to North Carolina real estate and business law: it creates an alternative path for real estate appraisers to gain experience through technology-based training programs instead of traditional apprenticeships (expiring in 2030), allows real estate salespersons to register with multiple dealers under common ownership, clarifies what out-of-pocket expenses landlords can recover from tenants in evictions, and permits buyer's agent compensation to be included in purchase offer forms.

Senate2025-07-02

S145Introduced

Mecklenburg Transportation Referendum

This bill authorizes Mecklenburg County to hold a referendum asking voters whether to approve an additional 1% local sales tax dedicated to funding roadway and public transportation systems. If approved by voters, 40% of revenue would go to eligible municipalities for road maintenance and improvements, while 60% would support a regional transit authority, with specific requirements for completing the Red Line rail project.

Senate2025-04-07

Cosponsored Bills (31)

S474Passed

Adjust Counties/Reappraisal Moratorium

This bill adjusts which counties must delay using updated property values from 2026 reappraisals for tax purposes. For the 2026-2027 tax year, affected counties must use older property values instead of the new ones. The bill also prevents public service company property values from decreasing in these counties during the moratorium period.

Senate2026-07-08

S153Passed

North Carolina Border Protection Act

This bill requires North Carolina state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, restricts state-funded benefits and housing assistance to legally authorized residents, verifies immigration status for unemployment benefits, removes liability protections for local governments that adopt sanctuary policies, and prohibits UNC universities from limiting immigration law enforcement on campus.

Senate2026-06-24

S227Passed

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education

This bill prohibits North Carolina public schools from teaching, promoting, or requiring professional development related to what it defines as "divisive concepts" — including ideas that individuals should feel guilt based on race or sex, that meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist, or that character traits should be ascribed to people based on race or sex. Schools must certify annual compliance and cannot maintain offices or employ staff whose primary duties involve promoting these concepts or discriminatory practices.

Senate2026-06-24

S558Passed

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Higher Ed

This bill prohibits North Carolina public universities and community colleges from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or programs, requiring employees to affirm certain concepts, or endorsing what the bill defines as 'divisive concepts' related to race and sex. It requires institutions to certify annual compliance and allows instruction on these topics only if the institution makes clear it does not endorse them.

Senate2026-06-24

S401Passed

NC Farm Act of 2025-2026

This comprehensive agricultural law makes multiple changes to North Carolina's farming and aquaculture regulations. The bill addresses water management planning for farms, creates a feral swine control program, adjusts penalties for agricultural crimes, streamlines shellfish aquaculture regulations, and modernizes various agricultural licensing and assessment procedures.

Senate2026-06-22

S1080Passed

Lower Taxes for All NC

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would lower North Carolina's maximum income tax rate from 7% to 3.5%. The amendment would be submitted to voters in the November 2026 election, and if approved, would take effect for tax years beginning January 1, 2027.

Senate2026-05-21

S1082Engrossed

NC Right to Work Amendment

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would protect workers' rights to employment without being required to join or pay dues to labor unions. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would establish as state policy that employment cannot be denied based on union membership or non-membership.

Senate2026-05-20

S1081Introduced

Constitutional Right to Farm

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add a new section to the North Carolina Constitution explicitly protecting the right of people to engage in farming and forestry activities, including crop cultivation, livestock raising, dairy and apiary production, and timber harvesting. The amendment would be subject to voter approval in the November 2026 general election.

Senate2026-05-18

S840Introduced

Teacher Licensure Modifications

This bill removes testing requirements for entry into teacher preparation programs, allows teachers to pass licensing exams within their first three years of teaching instead of before, permits teachers with positive student growth data to skip exams for permanent licensure, and streamlines out-of-state teacher licensing by requiring only three years of experience and good standing rather than additional testing.

Senate2026-04-29

Voting Record (691)

691

Votes Cast

604

Yea

Nay

90%

Participation

Absent
S225SenatePassed
Eddie Buffaloe/Secretary of DPS
2025-03-13
Yea
S261SenatePassed
Energy Security and Affordability Act
2025-03-13
Absent
S225SenatePassed
Eddie Buffaloe/Secretary of DPS
2025-03-13
Absent
S221SenatePassed
Confirm Pam Cashwell/Sec. N & CR
2025-03-13
Absent
S221SenatePassed
Confirm Pam Cashwell/Sec. N & CR
2025-03-13
Yea
S59SenatePassed
Age 21 Hemp-Derived Consumables/Kratom
2025-03-12
Yea
S223SenatePassed
Expand Academic Trans. Pathways/Sophomore HS
2025-03-12
Yea
S77SenatePassed
School Contracted Health Services
2025-03-11
Yea
S227SenatePassed
Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education
2025-03-11
Yea
S58SenatePassed
AG/Restrict Challenge to Presidential EOs
2025-03-11

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David Craven

David Craven

Sponsored Bills (20)

Various Revenue Laws Changes

Charitable Orgs. Privacy Protection Act

Required Disclosures/Proxy Advisory Services

Commuter Transportation Study/Piedmont Triad

Veteran Access, Liberty, Options for Recovery

The Law and Order Act

County Waste Management Assistance

Various Real Estate and Business Law Changes

Mecklenburg Transportation Referendum

Local Govt Transportation System Financing

Definitions for Advanced Recycling

2025 State Investment Modernization Act.-AB

Bail Bond Omnibus

Adult Care Home Medicaid PCS Coverage

Student Borrowers' Bill of Rights

Buy American Steel

The Stars and Stripes Commitment Act

Establish NCSTARS Grant Program

Window Tint/Inspection/Approach of LEO

29th Senatorial District Local Act-1

Cosponsored Bills (31)

Adjust Counties/Reappraisal Moratorium

North Carolina Border Protection Act

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Higher Ed

NC Farm Act of 2025-2026

Lower Taxes for All NC

NC Right to Work Amendment

Constitutional Right to Farm

Teacher Licensure Modifications

Luggage for Children Placed in Foster Care

Freedom to Carry NC

Charter School Changes

SCRIPT Act

2025 Public Safety Act

Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation

North Carolina Farm Act of 2025

Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted

School Calendar Flexibility:A New Alternative

Confirm Dr. Devdutta Sangvai/DHHS

AI Academic Support Grant Program

Enhancing Ag. Opportunities in Rural NC

Bring Back Our Heroes

Water & Sewer Allocation Reforms

Funds for Oyster Farming

Funds for Beaufort's Boat Docks

Update 1987 Rates/Organs and Disfigurement

LEO Special Separation Allowance Options

Energy Security and Affordability Act

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

Flags at Every School

Protect Campus Survivors Act

Voting Record (691)