Deal To Sign New State Budget, Decide On Other Bills

Any measures Gov. Nathan Deal doesn’t explicitly veto become law automatically.

David Goldman / Associated Press

Gov. Nathan Deal has one week left to take action on the bills that made through this year’s legislative session, and he has a lot of decisions to make.

With the May 8 signing deadline looming, Deal has yet to sign a bill creating a regional transit authority for metro Atlanta or another mandating online retailers collect state sales tax.

He also has to decide whether to allow some parts of the city of Stockbridge to be taken for the new city of Eagle’s Landing, and whether to make unauthorized computer access illegal even for cybersecurity research.