§ 2b. — Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC2b]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 1--ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 2b. Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and
subsequent Congresses
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
January 8, 1941, based upon the method known as the method of equal
proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.
(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, Sec. 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)
Certificates to Executives of States
Section 2(b) of act Nov. 15, 1941, required Clerk of House of
Representatives, within 15 days of Nov. 15, 1941, to send a new
certificate of entitlement of a State to Representatives, if such a
certificate had been sent prior to Nov. 15, 1941, under provisions of
section 2a of this title.
