If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or requirement of this Act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this Act, and each article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, and requirement thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more articles, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or requirements be declared unconstitutional.