To veto a bill is to decline or not accept it
Accept or approve it
Separation of powers
Vetoing a bill, power given to the president
No, only the President (Executive branch) has the authority to veto a bill.
The line item veto in an appropriations t bill is the power you have in mind. Such a power lets the governor strike single items without vetoing the whole bill. Without such power, the legislature can pass a bill that contains necessary expenditures along with useless "pork" and the governor either has to allow the useless expenses or else veto something that the state must have have .
line-item veto
judicial review
To veto a bill is to decline or not accept it
Vetoing it
On February 22, 1860 a bill to end slavery was returned to the House after the Governor returned the bill unsigned, essential vetoing the bill. On February 25th the bill was voted on by the Council and passed with a 9 to 4 vote, overriding the veto.
By vetoing a bill
In order for a state bill to become a law the governor must sign it. Without his signature the bill dies. At that point the legislature has to come up with enough votes to pass the bill into law without the governor's signature or just let it go.
The opposite of signing a bill is vetoing a bill.
Accept or approve it
The Legislature
no.