As I answer my own questions (i feel like a mad scientist entering into a diary).......
That field is for extension years. I changed it and it did not help.
I am still getting an error on line 2. I noticed that line 2 has a blank name, a blank birthday and blank other lines. After editing it, the program still crashes on line 2. I'm thinking about just deleting that line altogether.
Okay I delete line 2 and I still get an error on line 2. There's a major problem with this homestate field and I can't figure it out.