--- type: "Bill" title: "Personal income taxes: exclusion: wrongfully incarcerated individuals." description: "The Personal Income Tax Law imposes a tax on taxpayers measured by the taxpayer's taxable income for the taxable year, but excludes certain items of income from the computation of tax, including an exclusion for a specified amount received as compensation for having been the victim of a miscarriage of justice by a specific individual that was wrongfully convicted." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 454" citation: "California AB 454 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Personal income taxes: exclusion: wrongfully incarcerated individuals."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Ridley-Thomas"] version_count: 5 action_count: 24 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2017-02-13" last_action: "2017-10-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c263ec3d-8a13-410f-a37a-2ac717c38b33" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454" source_hash: "204cd6fd43b8463caa2deec664296182e8e8dcf6f2ffe6eb00546e62bfc3412c" vintage: "2026-07-01" source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump" retrieved_at: "2026-07-06" confidence: "reported" tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"] --- # California AB 454 (20172018) — Personal income taxes: exclusion: wrongfully incarcerated individuals. The Personal Income Tax Law imposes a tax on taxpayers measured by the taxpayer's taxable income for the taxable year, but excludes certain items of income from the computation of tax, including an exclusion for a specified amount received as compensation for having been the victim of a miscarriage of justice by a specific individual that was wrongfully convicted. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454&version=20170AB45499INT) 2. **07/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454&version=20170AB45498AMD) 3. **10/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454&version=20170AB45496CHP) 4. **AB454** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454) 5. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB454&version=20170AB45497ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper - AB 454 RIDLEY-THOMAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower - AB 454 Ridley-Thomas Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower - Special Consent Calendar # AB454 — **40–0** (pass) · upper - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Ridley-Thomas — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16. - **2017-02-27** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee` - **2017-03-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2017-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1143.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee` - **2017-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2017-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2017-07-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1` - **2017-07-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-09-12** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2017-09-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2907.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2017-09-14** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3423.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. - **2017-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2017-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 655, Statutes of 2017. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c263ec3d-8a13-410f-a37a-2ac717c38b33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).