This bill, companion bill SB 294, restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving a felony offense, and where the property owner has been convicted of the underlying felony offense. It also directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. This is reintroduction of a bill that Governor Ige vetoed in 2019. It's an important change because under existing law, the police can seize and the state can forfeit property that is only tenuously connected to the suspected crime, and a person's property can be auctioned off by the state even if charges are never brought against anyone for any crime relating to that property.