Medical fund changes a 'stuff up': Labor

The federal government has been accused of stuffing-up draft laws for its much-vaunted Medical Research Future Fund.

Parliament's lower house on Thursday rejected a government amendment passed in the Senate on how research funding would be dispersed, because constitutional rules mean the upper house can't make laws appropriating revenue.

Labor health spokeswoman Catherine King said the government had "stuffed-up" its legislation having made 20 amendments in the Senate.