Muhammad Akbar Ali

Sponsored a bill proposing state grants to help college students pay off-campus housing costs (House Bill 1052, Student Housing Affordability Act). It got a second reading in the House but died when the session ended.

January 29, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: legis.ga.gov · researched August 8, 2026

Sponsored a bill proposing state grants to help college students pay off-campus housing costs (House Bill 1052, Student Housing Affordability Act). It got a second reading in the House but died when the session ended.

January 29, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legis.ga.gov · researched August 8, 2026

Voted no as the Georgia House agreed 104-71 to the Senate's rewrite of House Bill 463. The Senate had replaced the bill's entire text. House Bill 463 started as a property tax break for senior citizens who volunteer for local governments. The version voted on here was a state income tax package instead, titled the Georgia Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2026. It cut the personal income tax rate from 5.19 percent to 4.99 percent starting in 2026. Later yearly cuts rose from 0.10 to 0.125 points and now run down to 3.99 percent. It also cut corporate and partnership income tax rates. The exemption for each dependent rose from $4,000 to $5,000, and the standard deduction for a single filer from $12,000 to $15,000. Up to $1,750 of overtime pay and $1,750 of cash tips became free of state income tax. People 65 and older may leave out more retirement income. The law repealed tax breaks for alternative-fuel and zero-emission vehicles, data center equipment, and high-technology computer equipment. It became law as Act 465, effective May 11, 2026.

April 2, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 28, 2026

Voted no, 97-65, as the House accepted the Senate's changes to House Bill 1185 and sent it to the governor. This vote sided with keeping shareholders' current power to sue companies and inspect their records. The new law routes internal lawsuits against public companies to Georgia's State-wide Business Court. It also lets companies require that court in their bylaws or charter. It sets a share-ownership minimum, up to 1 percent, for investors suing on a listed company's behalf. It bars legal-fee awards when a shareholder case produces only extra disclosures. It became Act 460 and took effect July 1, 2026.

March 31, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 28, 2026

Voted against Senate Bill 3EX as rewritten in the House. It sets up a nine-member committee to design a new statewide voting system that uses hand-marked paper ballots, and it bars the current Secretary of State from helping choose or buy that system. It also orders a hand recount when a close statewide race is decided by half a point or less, and the state pays counties back. The Georgia House passed it 94-79, and it became law.

June 23, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted against accepting the Senate's final version of HB 1247, the 'Georgia Bureaucratic Deference Elimination Act.' The Georgia House agreed 98-70 anyway and the bill became law as Act 718. The law bars courts from deferring to a state agency's own reading of laws and rules. Its 'Red Tape Rollback Act of 2026' sets new steps for writing rules. It also makes each agency send the Office of Planning and Budget a review of its own rules. The law opens to the public any settlement of an unlawful employment practice claim against a member of the General Assembly. The claimant's name is removed, but the member is named. A separate part requires some privately funded groups that shelter or serve homeless people to take part in Georgia's Homeless Management Information System. That duty is narrow. It reaches only groups within 1,000 feet of a school, college, child care center, public park, or playground. It applies in one metro area, not statewide, and skips groups that served fewer than ten people in the past year. A group that does not take part gets a non-criminal citation.

April 2, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted no on Senate Bill 472, a school money-oversight bill. The Georgia House passed it 96-58 anyway and it became law as Act 722. The law lets the State Board of Education ask the governor to suspend local school board members, with pay. That follows state auditor findings of money mismanagement or the worst level of state monitoring. In districts flagged as high risk, a superintendent's contract may not run longer than 12 months. Some auditor findings became grounds to fire a superintendent for cause. Early advances of state money are capped at half the district's state funds from the year before. State auditors must audit every local school system and state charter school each year.

March 25, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against passing Senate Bill 443. The bill raised blocking a highway or street to a high and aggravated misdemeanor, a more serious grade of minor crime. Blocking a sidewalk or other public passage stayed a plain misdemeanor. The offense applies only when a person refuses to clear the way after an officer's order. It also let people harmed sue the blocker for damages. The Georgia House passed it 96-69 anyway, and it became law as Act 512.

March 23, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against House Bill 1164. A state audit committee must review high- and moderate-risk school systems, with wider risk tests, yearly audit and payment certifications, responses to budget problems, and more public financial notices. The state may change or end some charter contracts by itself, and superintendent contract extensions are limited while a system is high risk. The Georgia House passed it 103-68, and it became law.

February 26, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 28, 2026