The 3.2-trillion-baht budget bill for fiscal 2020 (October 2019-September 2020) was passed in January. The House speaker submitted the case to the Constitutional Court to rule on whether the bill was still constitutional. Besides, the court wrote, there is an urgent need for budget disbursement and the new Constitutional Court law allows it to prescribe actions to be taken. Unlike the infrastructure borrowing bill, the budget bill has no essential clauses that are unconstitutional, the court wrote, without elaborating further. Section 143 of the charter prescribes that the House must finish deliberating a budget bill within 105 days from the date it reaches the House.

Source: Bangkok Post February 07, 2020 10:48 UTC