It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. In all respects in which amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the city of Pawtucket, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the city of Pawtucket on November 7, 1995, and which amendments revise sections relating to the school committee to reflect current practice and state law providing for two (2) year terms and to revise provisions for filling of school committee vacancy; to revise sections of Article VI on Municipal elections to update and conform to current state law, to remove obsolete language and to renumber sections as necessary; to revise sections relating to Personnel to delete the reference to the number of administrative departments of the city, to revise language to reflect current staffing practice and to delete obsolete language; to revise sections relating to ethics to delete references prohibiting the holding of state and federal offices to conform to current state law and court decisions; and to revise sections relating to purchasing to tighten the procedures and fix responsibility for the making of all city purchases and to update purchasing language to conform to current state law; may require ratification, confirmation, validation or enactment by the general assembly, but in no other respects, of the provisions of said amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the city of Pawtucket are hereby ratified, confirmed, validated and enacted. It is the express intention of the general assembly, by the passage of this act, to give effect to, ratify, confirm, validate and enact those provisions of the said amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the city of Pawtucket which require ratification, confirmation, validation or enactment and by the passage of this act, the legislature does hereby ratify, confirm, validate and enact said provisions, but nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or hereafter granted to cities and towns by the Home Rule amendment and other applicable laws of the state of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said city of Pawtucket in its Home Rule Charter.

SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the city of Pawtucket or to any person or circumstances is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of this act, or the application of such provision to said town or other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.