A total of 160 members voted in favour while 51 voted against.
Budget 2016 was presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake on November 20.
13 MPs, including M.K.D.S. Gunewardena, Selvam Adaikalanathan, Geetha Kumarasinghe, Siripala Gamalath, Premalal Jayasekera, Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, Manusha Nanayakkara, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Thenuka Widanagamage, Wimal Weerawansa, Shivashakthi Ananthan and Ali Zahir Moulana were absent.
