This comes a day after Speaker K Sivaprasad Rao informed the members to collect the high-end smartphones designed and marketed by US giant Apple Inc.
The distribution of iPhones has not come as a surprise as it has been a general practice to give electronic items like laptops to legislators during the Budget sessions.
The move comes at a time when the state is facing a revenue deficit following bifurcation.
Finance Minister Y Ramakrishnudu, however, maintained that the Government has neither given phones to the members nor organised cultural programmes (also an old practice at the end of session) in view of the financial difficulties being faced by the state.