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Davis serves as senior chairman of the House Special Select Committee on River Water Quality. Davis voted for the 2017 budget, which decreased funding to the Clean Water Management Trust Fund by 18 percent. Davis voted for HB 56, the “junk drawer of environmental bills,” where lawmakers added $435,000 for GenX research while also repealing the Outer Banks plastic bag ban and reducing county authority over landfills. The bill split $435K between UNCW and the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority to monitor and study GenX. Republican leaders criticized Cooper’s veto, focusing on the GenX issue. Davis’ committee, through collaboration with DEQ, successfully and unanimously passed HB189, which allocates of $2.3 million to DEQ for the study of GenX, in the House. However, the bill stalled in the Senate. Under Republican control, both DEQ and DHHS have faced massive budget cuts leaving the departments without adequate funding to study emerging contaminants like GenX. The cuts have forced DEQ to eliminate managers and replace experienced staff with cheaper labor while the Water Supply Protection Division lost a third of their employees. Republican lawmakers said that DEQ simply needs to shift resources to fix the deficits. Davis voted for the 2017 budget, which decreased funding to the Clean Water Management Trust Fund by 18 percent. Davis voted for H467, limiting compensation for damages for people whose property is damaged by spraying of animal waste. Davis voted for House Bill 576, which would allow landfill operators to use aerosolization to dispose of leachate by “spraying it into the air over their property” without a permit.

On a 2012 Civitas candidate survey, Davis answered “agree” to the question, “Marriage between one man and one woman should be the only domestic legal union valid in North Carolina.”

Robert Theodore Davis Jr. (born January 23, 1950) is an American politician. He was elected to represent the 19th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2012. Davis is a lawyer by profession.