Rep. Jay C. Hoffman
Filed: 7/12/2007
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1704




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1704, AS AMENDED, 
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with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 
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on page 13, by replacing lines 8 through 11 with the following:
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    "Section 50. Jurisdiction. The Court of Claims has 
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jurisdiction concerning any public liability action arising 
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under this Act or arising from the operation of the FutureGen 
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Project, except that a public liability action may be brought 
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in the circuit court if the cause of action is one of personal 
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injury or wrongful death and the injury or death was 
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proximately caused by the storage, escape, release, or

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migration of the post-injection sequestered gas that was

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injected during the operation of the FutureGen Project by the

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FutureGen Alliance, and the circuit court  is"; and
 
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on page 26, by replacing lines 19 through 24 with the 
 


 






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following:
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    "Sec. 8.5. Jurisdiction concerning the FutureGen Project. 
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The Court of Claims has jurisdiction
concerning any public 
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liability action, as defined in the Clean
Coal FutureGen for 
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Illinois Act, arising under that Act or arising from the 
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operation of the
FutureGen Project, except that a public 
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liability action may be brought in the circuit court if the 
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cause of action is one of personal injury or wrongful death and 
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the injury or death was proximately caused by the storage, 
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escape, release, or
migration of the post-injection 
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sequestered gas that was
injected during the operation of the 
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FutureGen Project by the
FutureGen Alliance, and the circuit 
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court is
granted jurisdiction over these matters."; and
 
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on page 27, by deleting line 1.