By: Gallegos S.R. No. 1288 1-10 provisions or applications of this Act that can be given effect 1-11 without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the 1-12 provisions of this Act are declared to be severable. 1-13 Explanation: This change is necessary to clarify that the 1-14 provisions of this Act are severable. 1-15 (2) Subdivisions (1) and (2), Senate Rule 12.03, are 1-16 suspended to permit the committee to omit text and to change text. 1-17 The omitted text reads as follows: 1-18 This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-19 The changed text reads as follows: 1-20 The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition 1-21 of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an 1-22 imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring 1-23 bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, 1-24 and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect 1-25 and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. 2-10 Secretary of the Senate