2025 Session Last amended: 2011 session

§ 295.59 — Severability

Plain-Language Summary

If a court strikes down any part of the MinnesotaCare tax law as unconstitutional or in violation of federal law, the rest of the law stays in effect. The legislature declared that it would have passed the law even without the invalid parts.

295.59 SEVERABILITY.

If any section, subdivision, clause, or phrase of sections 295.50 to 295.582 is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or in violation of federal law, the decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of sections 295.50 to 295.582. The legislature declares that it would have passed sections 295.50 to 295.582 and each section, subdivision, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, or phrases is declared unconstitutional.

History:

1992 c 549 art 9 s 13; 1993 c 345 art 13 s 23; 1Sp2011 c 9 art 6 s 97

History: History: 1992 c 549 art 9 s 13; 1993 c 345 art 13 s 23; 1Sp2011 c 9 art 6 s 97

Practical Notes

This is a standard severability clause that protects the rest of the MinnesotaCare tax law if any single provision is found invalid by a court. It means that a successful legal challenge to one part of the tax would not automatically eliminate the entire tax system.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes