republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-141.md

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Bill	Personal income taxes: exclusion: loan discharge.	The Personal Income Tax Law provides for various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness discharged on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2020, for an eligible individual who is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to special provisions of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Borrower's Rights and Responsibilities Statement because the individual could not complete a program of study due to the school closing or because the individual successfully asserts that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have done.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 141	California SB 141 (20172018)	bill	Personal income taxes: exclusion: loan discharge.	enacted	Nguyen	4	16	4	2017-01-13	2017-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/b352aad6-3ade-4f4d-afb3-a8bbdf56c33b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB141	01fddc0e7536ffeef315c37a3c950a41c09ab51165bf15ba2e10ba781cf7bf3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 141 (20172018) — Personal income taxes: exclusion: loan discharge.

The Personal Income Tax Law provides for various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness discharged on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2020, for an eligible individual who is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to special provisions of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Borrower's Rights and Responsibilities Statement because the individual could not complete a program of study due to the school closing or because the individual successfully asserts that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have done.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 01/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/17/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB141 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 141 Nguyen Senate Third Reading By CHEN — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nguyen — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-01-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-01-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
• 2017-01-26 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-03-10 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2017-03-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 537.) (March 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 643.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-06 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2405.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2017-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2017-07-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 71, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b352aad6-3ade-4f4d-afb3-a8bbdf56c33b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).