Rep. Jay C. Hoffman
Filed: 7/12/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1704
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1704, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
3 | with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. | ||||||
4 | 1, as follows:
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5 | on page 13, by replacing lines 8 through 11 with the following: | ||||||
6 | "Section 50. Jurisdiction. The Court of Claims has | ||||||
7 | jurisdiction concerning any public liability action arising | ||||||
8 | under this Act or arising from the operation of the FutureGen | ||||||
9 | Project, except that a public liability action may be brought | ||||||
10 | in the circuit court if the cause of action is one of personal | ||||||
11 | injury or wrongful death and the injury or death was | ||||||
12 | proximately caused by the storage, escape, release, or
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13 | migration of the post-injection sequestered gas that was
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14 | injected during the operation of the FutureGen Project by the
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15 | FutureGen Alliance, and the circuit court is"; and | ||||||
16 | on page 26, by replacing lines 19 through 24 with the |
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1 | following: | ||||||
2 | " Sec. 8.5. Jurisdiction concerning the FutureGen Project. | ||||||
3 | The Court of Claims has jurisdiction
concerning any public | ||||||
4 | liability action, as defined in the Clean
Coal FutureGen for | ||||||
5 | Illinois Act, arising under that Act or arising from the | ||||||
6 | operation of the
FutureGen Project, except that a public | ||||||
7 | liability action may be brought in the circuit court if the | ||||||
8 | cause of action is one of personal injury or wrongful death and | ||||||
9 | the injury or death was proximately caused by the storage, | ||||||
10 | escape, release, or
migration of the post-injection | ||||||
11 | sequestered gas that was
injected during the operation of the | ||||||
12 | FutureGen Project by the
FutureGen Alliance, and the circuit | ||||||
13 | court is
granted jurisdiction over these matters. "; and | ||||||
14 | on page 27, by deleting line 1.
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