“If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”
The section provides that if any provision of the Act, or its application to a person or circumstance, is held invalid, the rest of the Act and its application to other people and circumstances are not affected.
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“If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”
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A court may strike down one part of this law. The rest still stands. It still applies to other people and cases.
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To sever is to cut one piece away and keep the rest. Without this clause a court might void the whole law. This tells the court to keep going.
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Increase the supply of housing in America, Public Law 119-101, sec. 1201, 140 Stat. 984 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ101/html/PLAW-119publ101.htm
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“If one provision is held invalid, the rest of the Act stands,” Increase the supply of housing in America, section 1201, Sec. 1201. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-101/proposal/sec1201-severability/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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