Adopted

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 2 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 2235

BY: Committee

     AMEND by striking lines 466 through 479 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     "If the criminal case is initiated by an officer of the * * *  Bureau of Narcotics and more than one (1) law enforcement agency participates in the underlying criminal case out of which the forfeiture arises, the proceeds shall be divided equitably between or among the Bureau of Narcotics and other participating law enforcement agencies and shall be deposited and credited to the budgets of the participating law enforcement agencies.  In the event that the Bureau of Narcotics and the other participating law enforcement agencies cannot agree on an equitable division of the proceeds, a petition shall be filed by any one of them in the court in which the civil forfeiture case is brought and the court shall make an equitable division."