republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-454.md

---
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).