Abbott Vetoes Bills
Austin American-Statesman
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, left, congratulates Gov. Greg Abbott at their inauguration ceremony Jan. 17. But the two state leaders are now publicly clashing over property tax relief.
Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed more than 45 bills ahead of a key legislative deadline in an unusually public escalation of his clash with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick over how to deliver property tax relief to Texans.
Sunday is the last day Abbott can sign or veto bills passed by both chambers during the regular legislative session that ended May 29; bills he doesn’t sign become law as well if he doesn’t veto them. But last week Abbott threatened that many of the bills still awaiting his signature might face vetoes if the House and Senate are unable to reach a compromise on the property tax cuts that were Abbott’s top campaign promise.
“As we get closer and closer to this Sunday, all of these bills that have yet to be signed face the possibility if not the probability that they’re going to be vetoed,” Abbott said during a bill signing ceremony last week. “I can’t assure that any bill that has not yet been signed, is going to be signed … until the Texas Senate and Texas House get together and come up with an agreement about how we are going to implement $17.6 billion in cutting property taxes.”
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