Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.
Summary
This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would change how House of Representatives seats are divided among the states. Currently, apportionment is based on each state's total population. Under this proposal, seats would instead be allocated based only on the number of U.S. citizens in each state, excluding non-citizen residents from the apportionment calculation.
If enacted, this amendment would potentially shift representation in the House away from states with larger non-citizen populations toward states with higher citizen populations. This could affect which states gain or lose seats after the decennial census. However, as a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, this would require approval by two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states to become law. The bill was introduced in February 2025 and has not yet advanced to committee.