I believe you are dealing with the taxable amount of your state refund as it appears on your federal tax return. The state refund would only be taxable if you itemized your deduction on your return in the previous year. Normally your refund on your state return from 2018 would show as taxable income on your federal return in 2019 on Schedule 1, Part 1, line 1 if it was taxable.
You can look on that line number be viewing your federal return in TurboTax as follows:
1. Find the "Tax Tools" option on your left menu bar and click on it
2. Click on "Tools"
3. Click on "View Tax Summary"
4. On the left menu bar see the option "Preview my 1040" and click on it to view form 1040 and schedule 1 to 3
If you see an entry on Sch 1, line 1, and it is the same as your state refund from 2018, and you itemized your deductions in 2018, then that should be correct.
If you didn't itemize your deductions in 2018, then the amount should be -0-.
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