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Amend HB 149 on third reading by adding a new Section 119.006 

to read as follows:

	Sec. 119.006.  INDEMNIFICATION.  The University of Texas 

System and the Permanent University Fund may enter into a lease with 

the commission, or an owner or operator of a clean coal project, for 

the use of lands owned or controlled by the system or fund for 

permanent storage of carbon dioxide captured by a clean coal 

project, provided that such lease adequately indemnifies the system 

and fund against liability for personal injury or property damage 

incurred by the system or fund as a result of the escape or 

migration of the carbon dioxide after it is injected into a zone or 

reservoir.  This section does not affect the application of Chapter 

101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, to any activity carried out 

by a governmental unit, as defined by that chapter.