Farooq Mughal

Voted to adopt the compromise version of HB 557. It lets doctors pass to nurse practitioners and physician assistants the power to prescribe some Schedule II drugs, and approves nurse protocol agreements on their own when set conditions are met. It also lets those providers sign the form a person needs for a disabled parking decal. The Georgia House adopted it 132-35, and it became law.

February 8, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Mughal co-sponsored House Bill 62 in 2023, the Georgia Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership Act. It proposed expanding Medicaid health coverage to low-income adults and setting up a work-readiness program for people on Medicaid. The bill went to the House Public Health Committee and never got a hearing.

January 25, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Mughal co-sponsored House Bill 62 in 2023, the Georgia Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership Act. It proposed expanding Medicaid health coverage to low-income adults and setting up a work-readiness program for people on Medicaid. The bill went to the House Public Health Committee and never got a hearing.

January 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Co-sponsored House Bill 1380 to establish rules for operating a motor vehicle when approaching a law-enforcement vehicle during a traffic stop.

February 26, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Co-sponsored a bill to let Georgia cities and counties limit how much landlords can charge for rent (House Bill 1353).

February 22, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Co-sponsored House Bill 1319 to lower the age for the City of Buford homestead exemption.

February 21, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Co-sponsored a law giving Gwinnett County public service employees, including teachers, police, firefighters, and hospital staff, an extra $2,000 homestead exemption from school property taxes. Gwinnett voters approved it in 2024 (House Bill 748).

March 23, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Co-sponsored House Bill 711 to increase the Gwinnett County school-district homestead exemption from $4,000 to $8,000.

March 13, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Mughal co-sponsored House Bill 62 in 2023, the Georgia Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership Act. It proposed expanding Medicaid health coverage to low-income adults and setting up a work-readiness program for people on Medicaid. The bill went to the House Public Health Committee and never got a hearing.

January 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored House Bill 1434 to create a tax credit for certain expenses by educators and first responders.

March 4, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 351. It bars social media companies from letting a child under 16 hold an account without a parent's clear consent. It also makes public schools adopt social media policies and use internet filters, and it lets the state hold back school money when those filters fall short. The Georgia House passed it 120-45, and it became law.

March 28, 2024Supports Data Privacy

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Co-sponsored a bill to let Georgia cities and counties limit how much landlords can charge for rent (House Bill 1353).

February 22, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against the final version of HB 1105. It requires jails to check the immigration status of the people they book and to honor federal immigration detainer requests. It requires local police agencies to seek working agreements with federal immigration officers, and it adds penalties for local governments that adopt sanctuary policies. The Georgia House agreed it 99-75, and it became law.

March 28, 2024

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Voted against the final version of HB 1339. It loosens the state's certificate of need rules, which decide when a new hospital or clinic may open, by dropping some spending limits and widening the exemptions. It also raises the tax credit for gifts to rural hospitals and sets up a commission to study health coverage in Georgia. The Georgia House agreed it 95-68, and it became law.

March 21, 2024

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Voted against SB 420. It bars people acting for governments the United States lists as foreign adversaries, and companies based in or largely owned from those countries, from buying farmland in Georgia. The final version also added transfer-on-death deeds, which let an owner name who gets a property when the owner dies. The Georgia House passed it 97-67, and it became law.

March 21, 2024

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Voted against SB 362. To keep state economic development incentives, an employer may no longer accept a union based on signed cards alone, and may not hand over workers' home addresses or personal phone numbers. An employer that does either must pay back every incentive it got for the project. The Georgia House passed it 96-78, and it became law.

March 20, 2024

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Voted against HB 1018. It bars banks and card networks from using a special merchant code that marks a business as a gun shop, and from sharing customers' gun-related purchase records. It also bars anyone, including government, from keeping a registry of guns or gun owners. The Georgia House passed it 106-60, and it became law.

February 27, 2024

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Sponsored House Bill 1354 to exempt certain child-rearing and adult-care products from sales and use tax.

February 22, 2024

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Was the lead sponsor of a Georgia bill barring city and county governments from charging a home-based business any regulatory fee, the charge local governments collect for inspecting a business (House Bill 1355, the Home Based Businesses Entrepreneurship Act). The ban would run through the year the business first applies and the two years after that. The bill defined a home-based business as a one-member limited liability company or an activity run from a home by family members living there. It went no further than a second reading on February 26, 2024.

February 22, 2024

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Co-sponsored House Bill 1320 to increase the City of Buford homestead exemption.

February 21, 2024

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Voted against the compromise version of SB 63. It requires money bail for a longer list of offenses and limits release without money. It also caps at three a year the number of cash bonds any person, charity or group may post, and makes groups that raise money to bail people out meet the same rules as professional bail companies. The Georgia House adopted it 97-69, and it became law.

February 6, 2024

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Voted against Senate Bill 3EX, a new map of Georgia's congressional districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting members of Congress keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 98-71, and it became law.

December 7, 2023

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Voted against Senate Bill 1EX, a new map of Georgia's state Senate districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting senators keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 98-71, and it became law.

December 5, 2023

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Voted against House Bill 1EX, a new map of Georgia's state House districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting representatives keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 101-77, and it became law.

December 1, 2023

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Co-sponsored House Bill 777, which amended Gwinnett County commissioner compensation provisions.

May 5, 2023

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Voted against SB 159. It raises the penalties for inmates caught with banned items such as cell phones, and sets stiffer penalties when a prison employee or contractor is the one who brings them in. It also raises the penalty for flying a drone over a prison to take photographs or video. The Georgia House passed it 103-72, and it became law.

March 27, 2023

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Voted against SB 222. It bars county and city governments and election officials from taking donations, grants or gifts to help run elections, so election costs come only from public money. It also makes the State Election Board its own state agency with its own director, no longer run through the Secretary of State's office. The Georgia House passed it 100-69, and it became law.

March 27, 2023

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Voted against SB 44. It sets a prison term of at least five years, and up to 20, for recruiting someone into a criminal street gang. The term must be served on top of any other sentence and cannot be probated, and prosecutors may appeal when a judge goes below it. The Georgia House passed it 99-74, and it became law.

March 20, 2023

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Voted against SB 140. It bans hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery for minors being treated for gender dysphoria, both in licensed hospitals and by doctors, with limited exceptions. A facility that breaks the ban can lose its permit. The Georgia House passed it 96-75, and it became law.

March 16, 2023

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Voted against HB 500. It creates the crime of arson of a law enforcement vehicle, for knowingly damaging one with fire or explosives or helping someone else do so. The penalty is five to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $100,000, or both, and the offense is added to the state bail schedule. The Georgia House passed it 100-69, and it became law.

March 1, 2023

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