Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives
§ 2b. Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses
Statutory text
Each State shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or section 2a of this title, to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on , based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 77–470 § 2(a) · 55 Stat. 761
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 2b
(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Number of Representatives in 78th Congress. Each State shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or such section 22, as amended by this Act, to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on January 8, 1941, based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Certificates to Executives of States
Act Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(b), 55 Stat. 762, required Clerk of House of Representatives, within 15 days of , to send a new certificate of entitlement of a State to Representatives, if such a certificate had been sent prior to , under provisions of section 2a of this title.
Credits
(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)