In the 88th legislative session, state lawmakers filed more than 11,000 bills.
In order to become law, those measures faced the hurdles of getting a committee hearing, passing out of committee, passing out of the full chamber, and then doing the same thing again in the other chamber. Assuming it all went in the sponsor’s way, the bill would finally make it to the governor’s desk.
Gov. Greg Abbott has three options when he receives a bill: He can sign it, he can ignore it and let it pass into law without his signature, or he can veto it.
And this year, the governor relied heavily on vetoes. He vetoed 76 bills before midnight Sunday, his deadline to make such decisions. It’s the most vetoes Abbott has ever made, though it doesn’t quite top the overall record of 83 by then-Gov. Rick Perry in 2001.
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