The error message states:

> `STATE_ID` is not a column in my table

So try this code snippet to show whether or not it does exist there:

    import arcpy
    inFc = <your feature class>
    fields = arcpy.ListFields(inFC)
    for field in fields:
        print field.name

You appear to be using geodatabase versioning so the above may or may not reveal anything.  I think you should edit more details into your question about where this feature class is stored.

To learn about where this STATE_ID column comes from I recommend reviewing the Online Help for [System tables of a geodatabase stored in Oracle][1] because it is:

> The identifier of the database state to which this version points


  [1]: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//002n0000008m000000