If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting the amendments to this chapter during the regular session of the Legislature in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine relating to employee benefits that the compensation programs performance council consider employer rate reductions commensurate with the cost of such employee benefits.
The amendments to this chapter effected by the enactment of Enrolled Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 579 during the 1999 regular session of the Legislature, become operative on July 1, 1999.
