It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and is composed of an The Legislature works at the transit building located in the state capital Amaravati.The legislature derives its authority from the Indian constitution, with sole authority to make laws on 61 subjects specified in the state list and shares law-making power in 52 concurrent subjects with the Parliament of India.

The state uses first-past-the-post method territorial constituencies for electing members to the lower house.

Due to delimitation of constituencies several ups and downs have taken place in the number of elected Members of Legislative Assembly in Andhra Pradesh.

B. V. Subba Reddy was the only Presiding Officer who has been elected twice as Speaker in 1962 and 1967 unanimously in the Third and Fourth Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

Another important feature of the Seventh Assembly was when the first Confidence Motion was moved and carried in the House on 20 September 1984.

The Eleventh Legislative Assembly which was constituted on 10 October 1999 elected K. Prathibha Bharathi as Speaker, the first women Presiding Officer of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature.

It was the second time in the history of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature that the First Citizen of India has addressed the Legislative Assembly.

The only power of the council, in ordinary or money bills is to introduce some delay into the legislative process.

[1] The assembly meets at temporary facilities in the Velagapudi neighbourhood of the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, having relocated there in March 2017.

[7] Sri Prasanna Kumar Suryadevara is presently serving as the Secretary General to the State Legislature.