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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| Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | Sponsor | Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Isidore Dollinger (D-NY) | 85-250 | 71 Stat 567 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000402 |
nothing in statute | |||
| Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative | Honor | Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative | 1944 - NO short title; 2000 - "Youth Drug and Menthal Health Services Act"; 2001 - "Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative" | Donald J. Cohen, child psychologist and pioneer in the field of childrens' mental health, who died in 2001. | 42 USC 290hh-1(g) | 106-310 | 114 Stat 1169 | Y | No short title in original legislation or in 2000 amendment indicated in PNT. Amended to add short title "Donald J. Cohen Traumatic Stress Initiative" by 115 Stat 2201 (2002) | |||
| Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act | Honor/Sponsor | Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act | "Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act" | Rep. Doug Barnard, Jr. (GA), retired 1992. | 31 USC 5112 (note) | 102-390 | 106 Stat 1620 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000153 |
Barnard was the sponsor, but the version he introduced did not include his name, which was added some time during the House consideration. | ||
| Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act | Sponsor | Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act | NO short title | Rep. Douglas Bereuter (R-NE) retired in 2004. | 42 USC 1472(h)(1) | 101-625, Title VII, Section 706(b) | 104 Stat 4284 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000403 |
short title is added by 118 Stat 917 in 2004, which renames section 502 of the 1990 Cranston-Gonzalez Act for Doug Bereuter, who is credited for drafting that section | ||
| Doughton Bond Limitation Act (see Second Liberty Bond Act) | Sponsor | Doughton Bond Limitation Act (see Second Liberty Bond Act) | NO short title | Rep. Robert Lee Doughton, (D-N.C.) | ch 56, 40 Stat 288 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000448 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Doughton Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 (see Current Tax Payment Act of 1943) | Sponsor | Doughton Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 (see Current Tax Payment Act of 1943) | "Current Tax Payment Act of 1943" | Rep. Robert Lee Doughton, (D-N.C.) | ch 120, 57 Stat 126 | x |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000448 |
short title at end; Rep. Doughton was chairman of House Ways and Means - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Doughton | ||||
| Doughton Unemployment Compensation Act | Sponsor | Doughton Unemployment Compensation Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Doughton (D-NC) | ch. 73, 53 Stat 581 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000448 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007 | Honor | Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007 | "Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007" | Dr. James Allen is a professor of opthamology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He worked for 33 years at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Wisconsin. (Bill sponsored by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI)). | 38 USC 101 (note) | 110-157 | 121 Stat 1831 | Y |
H. Rept. 110-057 |
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| Drive for Teen Employment Act | Political Description | Drive for Teen Employment Act | "Drive for Teen Employment Act" | Cutesy play-on-words -- statute changes the exemption to child labor provisions of the FLSA for teenagers driving cars and trucks in the course of employment. | 29 USC 201 | 105-334 | 112 Stat 3137 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | |||
| Dugger Mountain Wildnerness Act of 1999 | Location | Dugger Mountain Wildnerness Act of 1999 | "Dugger Mountain Wildnerness Act of 1999" | Dugger Mountain in Alabama. | 106-156 | 113 Stat 1741 | Y |
http://www.recreation.gov/recAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&recAreaId=... |
short title; act is naming area of federal lands as "Dugger Mountain Wilderness", named for Dugger Mountain |