Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

2 U.S.C. § 2b

Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses

section 2a of this titleEach 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 , 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.

Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a)55 Stat. 762(, .)

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Certificates to Executives of States

Act Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(b)55 Stat. 762section 2a of this title, , 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 .