MO SB1797

Adds two new sections (1.141 and 1.4500) to Chapter 1 of Missouri Revised Statutes establishing default severability rules for all legislative acts

Requires courts to presume the General Assembly would have enacted valid provisions without any provision found unconstitutional, whether on procedural or substantive grounds

Permits courts to invalidate remaining provisions only upon clear and convincing evidence that the legislature would not have enacted them without the void provision

Defines clear and convincing evidence to include findings that valid provisions standing alone are incomplete and incapable of execution according to legislative intent

Declares the General Assembly's intent that it would have passed each section, provision, clause, phrase, or word of any act regardless of whether other portions are declared unconstitutional or unenforceable