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Bill	Personal Income Tax Law: exclusion: student loan debt forgiveness.	The Personal Income Tax Law provides for various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness repaid or canceled pursuant to a specified federal law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 63	California SB 63 (20192020)	bill	Personal Income Tax Law: exclusion: student loan debt forgiveness.	enacted	Hertzberg	7	29	8	2019-01-07	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/7b4dcfe4-103f-4f18-840b-8fe2854ef6f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB63	afc9f7fd4503c49207daa95507375c702908785b2ade2dd6018007016d008df9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 63 (20192020) — Personal Income Tax Law: exclusion: student loan debt forgiveness.

The Personal Income Tax Law provides for various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness repaid or canceled pursuant to a specified federal law.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB63 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 63 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Maienschein — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB63 Hertzberg et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB63 Hertzberg et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Diep — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Grove — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 7.
• 2019-01-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2019-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 902.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1089.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1271.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 June 24 hearing: Heard for testimony only.
• 2019-07-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3177.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-10 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2784.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 468, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b4dcfe4-103f-4f18-840b-8fe2854ef6f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).