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Amend SB 22 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 4, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following:
Sec. 2272.005. CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER. This chapter may not be construed to restrict a municipality or county from prohibiting abortion.
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. It is the intent of the legislature that every provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to each person or entity, are severable from each other. If any application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected.