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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 299 (Introduced in House) — To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Composition of House of Representatives

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For purposes of determining the number and apportionment of the Members of the House of Representatives from the State of Maryland for the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress, the population of the District of Columbia shall be added to the population of Maryland under the decennial census. Effective with respect to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 436 Members. Section 22(a) of the Act entitled An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress , approved June 28, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking the then existing number of Representatives and inserting the number of Representatives established with respect to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress .
The amendment made by subparagraph
(A)shall apply with respect to the regular decennial census conducted for 2020 and each subsequent regular decennial census. Notwithstanding subsection (a), in establishing Congressional districts after the effective date of this section, the State of Maryland shall ensure that the entire area of the District of Columbia is included in the same Congressional district (except as provided in paragraph (2)). If the population of the District of Columbia equals or exceeds the average population of a Congressional district in the State of Maryland under the decennial census used for the apportionment of the Members of the House of Representatives from the State of Maryland, the State of Maryland shall ensure that at least one Congressional district in the State consists exclusively of territory within the District of Columbia. Until the State of Maryland establishes Congressional districts to take into account the enactment of this section, the Congressional district of the additional Representative to which the State is entitled under this section shall consist exclusively of the area of the District of Columbia.
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