[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7181 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7181

 To establish the number of Members of the House of Representatives at 
                                  400.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 28, 2018

   Mr. Issa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish the number of Members of the House of Representatives at 
                                  400.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``400 Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES AT 400.

    (a) In General.--Section 22(a) of the Act entitled ``An Act to 
provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial census and to 
provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress'', approved 
June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ``the then 
existing number of Representatives'' and inserting ``400 
Representatives''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to the regular decennial census conducted for 2020 
and each subsequent decennial census.
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