ATLANTA --- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed an $18.3 billion budget that increases health insurance premiums for state employees, slashes funding for Georgia's college system and cobbles together money to go after tax cheats.
Deal signed the budget before departing Saturday on a trade mission to Europe. His office announced Tuesday that the governor used his line item veto power to strike funding for 11 bond projects in the university system worth more than $40 million.