Constitution of India · Part VI: The States · Procedure in Financial Matters
Article 204: Appropriation Bills
In plain words
After the Assembly makes the grants, an Appropriation Bill is introduced to authorise spending from the State's Consolidated Fund for those grants and for charged expenditure, not exceeding the amounts in the statement laid before the Legislature.
- No amendment can change the amount or purpose of a grant or the amount of charged expenditure, and the presiding person's decision on this is final.
- Subject to articles 205 and 206, no money can be withdrawn from the State's Consolidated Fund except under an appropriation made by such a law.
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Official text
(1) As soon as may be after the grants under article 203 have been made by the Assembly, there shall be introduced a Bill to provide for the appropriation out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of all moneys required to meet—
(a) the grants so made by the Assembly; and
(b) the expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State but not exceeding in any case the amount shown in the statement previously laid before the House or Houses.
(2) No amendment shall be proposed to any such Bill in the House or either House of the Legislature of the State which will have the effect of varying the amount or altering the destination of any grant so made or of varying the amount of any expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State, and the decision of the person presiding as to whether an amendment is inadmissible under this clause shall be final.
(3) Subject to the provisions of articles 205 and 206, no money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State except under appropriation made by law passed in accordance with the provisions of this article.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.