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SB337 would also take a step toward opting Nevada out of a federal program that allows state and local police to get around more strict state asset forfeiture laws.

A Florida House subcommittee unanimously passed a bill that would reform the state's asset forfeiture process by requiring a criminal conviction in most cases. The enactment of this legislation would also take a significant step toward opting the state out of a program that allows police to circumvent more strict state forfeiture laws by passing cases off to the feds.

The legislation would replace the state’s civil asset forfeiture process with a criminal process requiring a criminal conviction before prosecutors could proceed with asset forfeiture in most cases.

A Colorado House committee held a hearing on a bill that would end civil asset forfeiture in the state and replace it with a criminal process. The enactment of this legislation would also further opt the state out of a program that allows police to circumvent more strict state forfeiture laws by passing cases off to the feds.

The legislation would restrict asset forfeiture to felony cases and would require a criminal conviction before prosecutors could proceed with the process in most cases.

The legislation would simply repeal the entire Oklahoma civil asset forfeiture process.

The proposed law would prohibit Missouri law enforcement agencies or prosecutors from entering into agreements to transfer seized property to a federal agency by way of adoption for the purpose of the property’s forfeiture under federal law.

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New Hampshire law establishes a specific asset forfeiture process for drug offenses. This legislation would reform that process to require prosecutors to get a conviction in most cases before proceeding with forfeiture.