# Line-Item Veto The authority to disapprove individual provisions of a bill, usually an appropriations bill, while allowing the remainder to become law. Forty-four states give their governors some form of it; Indiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont do not. Several states confine it to budget bills. Two variants go further than striking text. A reduction veto, available in about a dozen states, lets a governor lower a dollar figure rather than delete it, which produces a number no chamber voted for. An amendatory veto, available in a handful, returns the bill with the governor's own substitute language, which the legislature may then accept by ordinary majority. The federal version has no current analogue. Congress granted the president a line-item veto in 1996 and the Supreme Court held it unconstitutional in [[Clinton v. City of New York]] (1998) as a violation of the Presentment Clause. State constitutions grant the power expressly, which is why the state instrument survives and the federal one did not. ## See also - [[How a State Legislature Makes Law]] - [[Clinton v. City of New York]]