The tax rebate is an appropriation, and the Gov. has the power of the line-item veto. -- I say veto it.

The AJC's Political Insider, writing about the compromise in the House and Senate negotiations over the midyear budget that proposes $142 million in property tax rebates for Georgia homeowners, notes:

By the way, a property tax rebate is technically an appropriation. And the governor does have the power of the line-item veto to erase it, if he so chooses.
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If the House and Senate include this in the mid-year budget, I say veto the dern thing.