30/07/2019 The Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines SECTION 24. All appropriation, revenue or tariff bills, bills authorizing increase of the public debt, bills of local application, and private bills shall originate exclusively in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments. SECTION 25. (1) The Congress may not increase the appropriations recommended by the President for the operation of the Government as speci ed in the budget. The form, content, and manner of preparation of the budget shall be prescribed by law. (2) No provision or enactment shall be embraced in the general appropriations bill unless it relates speci cally to some particular appropriation therein. Any such provision or enactment shall be limited in its operation to the appropriation to which it relates. (3) The procedure in approving appropriations for the Congress shall strictly follow the procedure for approving appropriations for other departments and agencies. (4) A special appropriations bill shall specify the purpose for which it is intended, and shall be supported by funds actually available as certi ed by the National Treasurer, or to be raised by a corresponding revenue proposed therein. (5) No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriations; however, the President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional Commissions may, by law, be authorized to augment any item in the general appropriations law for their respective o ces from savings in other items of their respective appropriations. (6) Discretionary funds appropriated for particular o cials shall be disbursed only for public purposes to be supported by appropriate vouchers and subject to such guidelines as may be prescribed by law. (7) If, by the end of any scal year, the Congress shall have failed to pass the general appropriations bill for the ensuing scal year, the general appropriations law for the preceding scal year shall be deemed reenacted and shall remain in force and effect until the general appropriations bill is passed by the Congress. SECTION 26. (1) Every bill passed by the Congress shall embrace only one subject which shall be expressed in the title thereof. (2) No bill passed by either House shall become a law unless it has passed three readings on separate days, and printed copies thereof in its nal form have been distributed to its Members three days before its passage, except when the President certi es to the necessity of its immediate enactment to www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1987-constitution/ 13/57