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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| Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938 | Description | Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938 | "Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938" | Ch. 223, 50 Stat 169 | ||||||||
| Legislative Pay Act of 1929 | Description | Legislative Pay Act of 1929 | "Legislative Pay Act of 1929" | Ch. 33, 46 Stat 32 | ||||||||
| Lesinski Pension Increase Act | Sponsor | Lesinski Pension Increase Act | NO short title | Rep. John Lesinski (D-MI) | ch 246, 54 Stat 237 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000251 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Let Our Veterans Rest in Peace Act of 2008 | Political Description | Let Our Veterans Rest in Peace Act of 2008 | "Let Our Veterans Rest in Peace Act of 2008" | 28 USC 994 | 110-384 | 122 Stat 4094 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Lever Act (Food and Fuel Control) | Sponsor | Lever Act (Food and Fuel Control) | NO short title | Rep. Asbury Francis Lever, (D-S.C.) | ch. 53, 40 Stat 276 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000259 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| LIFE Act | Acrostic | LIFE Act | "Legal Immigration Family Equity Act" or "LIFE Act" | 8 USC 1101 | 106-553, S1(a)(2) [title XI] | 114 Stat 2762, 2762A-142 | Y | short title at beginning of title XI | ||||
| LIFE Act Amendments of 2000 | Acrostic | LIFE Act Amendments of 2000 | "LIFE Act Amendments of 2000" | 8 USC 1101 | 106-554, S1(a)(4) [div B, title XV] | 114 Stat 2763, 2763A-324 | Y | short title at beginning of title XV | ||||
| Life Insurance Act | Description | Life Insurance Act | "Life Insurance Act" | Ch. 672, 48 Stat 1125 | ||||||||
| Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | Honor | Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009" | Lilly Ledbetter was a manager at a Goodyear plant in Alabama who sued the company for sex discrimination in pay practices. When she lost her case before the Supreme Court, the Congress changed the law to increase the time workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination. | 42 USC 2000a (note) | 111-2 | 123 Stat 5 | Y |
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1874954,00.html |
short title | ||
| 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 |