The coordinating board shall use money available for the purpose from legislative appropriations, including gifts, grants, and donations, to support at one or more eligible institutions applied research related to:

1. (1) the development, construction, and operation in this state of a clean coal project, as defined by Section 5.001, Water Code; or

2. (2) electricity generation using lignite coal deposits in this state or integrated gasification combined cycle technology.

   Transferred and redesignated from Education Code, Section 143.0051 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1155 (S.B. 215), Sec. 59, eff. September 1, 2013.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1246 (H.B. 2608), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.