The collection can be sorted by the popular name of the law, by the date of its enactment, or by descriptive category of naming convention. The categories are our attempt to bring some degree of order to the chaos.
Database of Federal Statute Names
Database of Federal Statute Popular Names
Title | Type | Popular Name | Short Title | Named For? | Classification | PL | Statute At Large | Date(s) Enacted | Interesting Part Statutized? | Leads to other named Legislation | Link/Source | Notes |
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No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931" | Ch. 522, 46 Stat 1552 | ||||||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" | Ch. 12, 47 Stat 15 | ||||||||
Northern Pacific Halibut Act | Description | Northern Pacific Halibut Act | "Northern Pacific Halibut Act" | Ch. 154, 47 Stat 142 | ||||||||
Revenue Act of 1932 | Description | Revenue Act of 1932 | "Revenue Act of 1932" | ch. 209, 47 Stat 179 | ||||||||
Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | Victim | Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | NO short title | The son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, kidnapped March 2, 1932. | 47 Stat 326 | N |
Bomar, "The Lindbergh Law," Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct. 1934), available http://www.jstor.org/stable/1189659. |
nothing in statute | ||||
District of Columbia Credit Unions Act | Description | District of Columbia Credit Unions Act | "District of Columbia Credit Unions Act" | Ch. 272, 47 Stat 326 | ||||||||
Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1933 | Description | Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1933 | "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1933" | Ch. 330, 47 Stat 452 | ||||||||
Tucker Act (Admiralty-Limitations) | Sponsor | Tucker Act (Admiralty-Limitations) | NO short title | Most likely Rep. John Randolph Tucker (D-VA), who was not the sponsor of this Act, but of the 1887 Tucker Act. | ch 315, 47 Stat 420 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000401 |
refers by name to Tucker Act of Mar 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 505 | ||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" | 47 Stat 525 | ||||||||
Cochran-Hull Act | Sponsor | Cochran-Hull Act | NO short title | Probably Rep. John J. Cochran (D-MO) (1926-1947); Probably Sen. Cordell Hull (D-TN) (1931-1933); | ch. 464, 47 Stat 649 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000565; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000940 |
nothing in statute |