The bill was one of two items to emerge from the House as Democratic leaders push for ways to cut school taxes. The other, which also passed unanimously Thursday, would give tax breaks to working poor while cutting the state's personal income tax by about a billion dollars a year.
The constitutional amendment would need to pass the Senate this year and then get another round of approval by the Legislature in the 2009-10 session before going to state voters for a referendum.
The House adjourned until the week of Jan. 28, when it is expected to take up bills that would reduce property taxes but make up the revenues with increased sales or income taxes.
