Promotes "conservative business reforms that enable businesses large and small to be more efficient, more productive, and bring more opportunities to families in our district."

Believes "leveraging the world-class workforce emerging from our local technical colleges and universities...by partnering with local employers to hire from the pipeline of highly trained and highly skilled workers graduating from our schools."

Wants to "Pass impactful conservative business reforms - making it easier for our small businesses to hire, attract developing industries, and boost economic development with locally-based incentives."

Supports "growing rural economies and supporting our leading industries like agriculture."

Fought for and "passed multiple healthcare reforms to lower costs and increase access for Georgians - and passed a 10% pay cut for politicians."

Opposes a government run single-payer health care system.

Wants to increase funding for rural hospitals, work with the House Rural Development Council to create "affordable care" for emergency services, and combat the "opioid crisis through increased access to life-saving treatment and recovery programs."

Plans to safeguard against federal overreach and pushing for smaller government with local control, so our local leaders can respond to the needs of our community without being encumbered by a top-down, bloated bureaucracy."

The candidate's website states, "Houston will work with veterans in the State House and our Georgia National Guard to cut taxes for our veterans, simplify housing transitions for military families, streamline the process to obtain education and professional licenses, and protect our military installations from federal cuts or relocation."

Opposes defunding the police and "spearheaded a bill to prohibit local governments from defunding the police."

Authored legislation targeting human trafficking and domestic violence.

Supports criminal justice reform and "will continue to support punishing society’s worst criminals while providing a path for rehabilitated inmates to find a job and become contributing members of society after serving their time."

Passed a bill to provide paid parental leave for teachers and state employees.

Wants to reduce, "Excessive standardized testing [which] will allow our teachers to focus on teaching and our children to concentrate on learning. By taking these measures, we will increase local control and improve 3rd grade reading proficiency, cut dropout levels, and boost graduation rates.

Wants to increase technical training by "Improving the partnerships between local businesses, developing industries, and our technical colleges in the region."