Law making procedure

Every February the Finance Minister reads the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, and within weeks the Rajya Sabha is told it can only make suggestions. A few months later, a Bill on, say, consumer rights goes through both Houses and stands still for a signature. The two Bills follow different roads. Which road a Bill takes depends on what kind of Bill it is, and the Constitution sorts Bills into ordinary, financial, money and appropriation Bills.

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An ordinary Bill needs both Houses (with a joint sitting for deadlock) and assent; a Money Bill starts only in the House of the People and the Council of States can only recommend; Financial and Appropriation Bills sit between the two.

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