Assam assembly unanimously passed the Constitution Amendment Bill on GST on Friday. The BJP ruled state has become the first state to do so.

“Assam will be remembered as the first state in the country to ratify the GST constitutional amendment bill,” Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told news agency ANI.

The government has been working overtime to get states on board over the GST following the passage of the bill in Parliament. It is keen to bring two bills aimed at implementing the new tax regime in the winter session to meet the April 2017 deadline for its rollout.

The Delhi assembly will table the bill in its monsoon session.

At least 16 states are required to ratify the Constitution amendment bill on GST. It will be then sent to the GST Council which will decide on the new tax rate as well as centre and state taxes that will be subsumed in the new tax regime.

The Council will be constituted after the Constitution amendment bill is notified.

The new tax regime, as approved by the Council, will then come before the Cabinet which will approve the new bills –Central GST (CGST) and Inter-state GST (IGST) — to be tabled in Parliament.