{"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":"id26d974e8-80c6-11ef-90ca-c5d5a54363d6","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=\"id4291e41b-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\" 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=\"id4291e41c-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">(<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=\"id4291e41d-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"statutoryNotes\" id=\"id4291e41e-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"miscellaneous\" id=\"id4291e41f-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><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":"118-90","currency_date":"2024-09-30","congress":118,"law_num":90,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":336,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","06","07","16","18","21","22","31","38","42","47","48","49"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"118-90","currency_date":"2024-09-30","congress":118,"law_num":90,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":336,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","06","07","16","18","21","22","31","38","42","47","48","49"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}