{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s2b","title_num":"2","num":"§ 2b.","heading":"Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses","status":null,"guid":"id177c9c19-a3d3-11e9-973a-9c709b2fe26d","source_credit":"(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)","seq_in_title":5,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch1","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch1","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 1—","heading":"ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id1ac10f59-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s2b\"><num value=\"2b\">§ 2b.</num><heading> Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">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 <ref href=\"/us/usc/t2/s2a\">section 2a of this title</ref>, to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on <date date=\"1941-01-08\">January 8, 1941</date>, based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id1ac10f5a-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1941-11-15/ch470/s2/a\">Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a)</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/55/762\">55 Stat. 762</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id1ac10f5b-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"miscellaneous\" id=\"id1ac10f5c-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Certificates to Executives of States</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\"><ref href=\"/us/act/1941-11-15/ch470/s2/b\">Act Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(b)</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/55/762\">55 Stat. 762</ref>, required Clerk of House of Representatives, within 15 days of <date date=\"1941-11-15\">Nov. 15, 1941</date>, to send a new certificate of entitlement of a State to Representatives, if such a certificate had been sent prior to <date date=\"1941-11-15\">Nov. 15, 1941</date>, under provisions of <ref href=\"/us/usc/t2/s2a\">section 2a of this title</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-29","currency_date":"2019-07-05","congress":116,"law_num":29,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":177,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","06","07","15","16","19","21","26","34","38","42","43","48","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-29","currency_date":"2019-07-05","congress":116,"law_num":29,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":177,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","06","07","15","16","19","21","26","34","38","42","43","48","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-44","currency_date":"2013-10-10","congress":113,"law_num":44,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":3,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","08","11a","16","21","22","30","38","42","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}