§ 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.Notes
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
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.