{"id":355000,"date":"2015-05-18T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355000"},"modified":"2015-05-19T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:58:29","slug":"abbotts-first-veto-nixes-ceremonial-mental-health-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355000","title":{"rendered":"Abbott&#8217;s First Veto Nixes Ceremonial Mental Health Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_greg-abbott-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_greg-abbott-21.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_greg-abbott-2\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-355219\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Republican Governor Greg Abbott has issued his first veto, striking down a ceremonial resolution saluting mental health professionals statewide. A House Concurrent Resolution by Nacogdoches Republican Representative Travis Clardy (pictured) commended mental health professionals as part of National Mental Health Month, observed each May. But Abbott said in a veto proclamation Monday that the Texas Constitution &#8220;requires all laws to be passed as bills&#8221; and &#8220;new law cannot be made by concurrent resolution.&#8221; He said the resolution &#8220;purports to direct the actions of state agencies in the manner of a law,&#8221; thus going &#8220;beyond the proper bounds of a concurrent resolution.&#8221; Abbott took office in January. As governor, he has 10 days to sign or veto laws approved by the Legislature, though any he takes no action on become law automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Republican Governor Greg Abbott has issued his first veto, striking down a ceremonial resolution saluting mental health professionals statewide. A House Concurrent Resolution by Nacogdoches Republican Representative Travis Clardy (pictured) commended mental health professionals as part of National Mental Health Month, observed each May. But Abbott said in a veto proclamation Monday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott&#8217;s First Veto Nixes Ceremonial Mental Health Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":355101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 10:21:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355000"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355223,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355000\/revisions\/355223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}