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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Trading with the enemy Act | Description | Trading with the enemy Act | "Trading with the Enemy Act" | NOTE - referred to by Ch. 64, 40 Stat 535 (passed 4/28/1918) | ||||||||
Guayule Rubber Act | Description | Guayule Rubber Act | NO short title | 7 USC 171 | ch. 140, 56 Stat 126 | N | guayule is a thing; name not statutized | |||||
Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992 | Description | Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992 | "Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992" | 42 USC 5117 | 99-401, title II | 100 Stat 907 | N | short title at beginning of title II; Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 - both names listed in PNT, 1992 amendments were "Children With Disabilities" | ||||
Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920 | Description | Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920 | "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920" | Ch. 94, 41 Stat 502 | ||||||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924" | Ch. 81, 43 Stat 33 | ||||||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" | 47 Stat 525 | ||||||||
Railway Labor Act | Description | Railway Labor Act | "Railway Labor Act" | 45 USC 151 | Ch. 691, 48 Stat 1185 | |||||||
Right to Work Law | Description | Right to Work Law | NO short title | 29 USC 164 | ch 372, S 14, 49 Stat 457 | N | nothing in statute about "Right to Work", cited as the "National Labor Relations Act"; "Right to Work" never statutized | |||||
QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005 | Description | QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005 | "QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005" | 42 USC 1305 | 109-91 | 119 Stat 2091 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918 | Description | Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918 | "The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act" | Ch. 20, 40 Stat 440 |