HB 593-FN is a bill that establishes procedures for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense. It allows certain materials, products, equipment, conveyances, moneys, and real property that are used or intended for use in the procurement, manufacture, compounding, processing, concealing, trafficking, delivery, or distribution of a controlled drug to be subject to forfeiture to the state. The bill also exempts United States currency totaling $200 or less, or a motor vehicle of $2,000 or less in market value from seizure and forfeiture. It establishes procedures for inventorying seized property, conducting appraisals, and initiating administrative or judicial proceedings against the property. The bill also allows for the court to order forfeiture of items or property interests subject to certain provisions, including that the owner or owners must have been consenting parties to a felonious violation of the law and had knowledge thereof.

HB 593-FN is a bill that relates to the forfeiture of property in criminal cases. It specifies that no items or property interests shall be subject to forfeiture unless they are involved in a felony offense and there is a conviction for that offense. The bill establishes procedures for post-seizure hearings, where a defendant or any other person with an interest in the property can petition the court for a hearing. The court may order the return of the property if it finds that the seizure was invalid, no criminal charge has been filed, the property is not needed as evidence, or the final judgment is likely to be in favor of the defendant or other person with an interest in the property. The bill also allows for property to be forfeited by consent order approved by the court, and provides for the court to consider the loss of property as part of the prosecution of the underlying crime.