R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64.14-22: Severability.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter shall be judged by any court or competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but it shall be confined in its operation of the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part directly involved in the controversy in which that judgment shall have been rendered. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any term or provision of § 42-64.14-6 is judged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the general assembly shall promptly act to address such clause, section, sentence, paragraph, or part directly involved in which the subject judgment shall have been rendered so as to provide, as near as practicable, the result originally intended by such clause, section, sentence, paragraph or part without running contrary to such judgment.