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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Wadsworth-Burke Bill (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Wadsworth-Burke Bill (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940" | Sen. Edward Raymond Burke (D-S.D.); Rep. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., (R-N.Y.) | 50 USC App 301 | ch 720, 54 Stat 885 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001089; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000012 |
short title at end - "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940"; "Wadsworth-Burke" not statutized | |||
Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1988 | Honor/Sponsor | Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1988 | "Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1988" | Rep. Clinton Anderson (NM) and Rep. Charles Melvin Price (IL), both of whom went on to chair the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 100-408 | 102 Stat 1066 | Y |
Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186; Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522 |
also long title: "To Amend the Price-Anderson provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954��_��__��_��___." | ||
Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 | Acrostic | Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 | "Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002" | 17 USC 101 | 107-273, div C, title III, subtitle C, S 13301 | 116 Stat 1910 | N | the obvious acronym is not listed in the PNT | ||||
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 | Description | Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 | "Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937" | 12 USC 1141j(e ) | Ch. 296, 50 Stat 246 | |||||||
Griffin-Landrum Act (see Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | Sponsor | Griffin-Landrum Act (see Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | "Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959" | Sen. Robert Paul Griffin, (R-MI); Rep. Philip Mitchell Landrum, (D-GA) | 29 USC 401 | 86-257 | 73 Stat 519 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000054 |
short title at beginning; "Griffin-Landrum" not statutized | ||
Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997 | Honor | Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997 | "Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997" | Rep. Morris K. Udall (AZ) | 42 USC 201 (note) | 105-78, title VI, section 603 | 111 Stat 1519 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=U000001 |
short title | ||
Pittman Act | Sponsor | Pittman Act | NO short title | Sen. Key Pittman, (D-NE) | ch 63, 40 Stat 535 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000372 |
nothing in statute; about silver and gold and coinage | ||||
SPEECH Act | Acrostic | SPEECH Act | "Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act" or "SPEECH Act" | 28 USC 1 | 111-223 | 124 Stat 2380 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
National Firearms Act | Description | National Firearms Act | "National Firearms Act" | 26 USC 5849 | Ch. 757, 48 Stat 1236 | |||||||
The Lodge Act (Alien Enlistee Program) | Sponsor | The Lodge Act (Alien Enlistee Program) | Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000393; http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.111-tv-284 |
Was not listed in PNT. Legislative gave the opportunity for citizenship to refugees from Communist countries if they served in the US armed forces for 5 years. Participants became known as "Lodge Act Soldiers." Sponsored by Sen Henry Cabot Lodges. I9 |