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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Glass Reserve Note Act (see Federal Reserve Act) | Sponsor | Glass Reserve Note Act (see Federal Reserve Act) | "Federal Reserve Act" | Rep. Carter Glass (D-VA) | 12 USC 226 | ch 6, 38 Stat 251 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232 |
short title - "Federal Reserve Act" - beginning of statute; Rep. Carter Glass was chair of the House Banking and Currency Committee and sponsored the bill | |||
Red Light Abatement Act (District of Columbia) | Description | Red Light Abatement Act (District of Columbia) | NO short title | ch 16, 38 Stat 280 | N | nothing in statute; about prostitution, "houses of lewdness" | ||||||
Smith-Lever Act | Sponsor | Smith-Lever Act | NO short title | Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA) and Rep. Asbury Lever (D-SC) | 7 USC 341 (note) | ch 79, 38 Stat 372 | Y |
Smith-Lever Act, Green 'N' Growing: The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/greenngrowing/essay_smith_lev... http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/camp.html; Lever - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000259; Smith - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551 |
amended to include "Smith-Lever Act" as short title by 112 Stat 525 | |||
Borland Amendment | Sponsor | Borland Amendment | NO short title | Rep. William Patterson Borland, (D-MO) | ch 191, 38 Stat 524 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000643 |
no name in statute | ||||
Clayton Act (Antitrust) | Sponsor | Clayton Act (Antitrust) | NO short title | Rep. Henry Clayton (D-AL), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and sponsor. | 15 USC 12(b) | ch. 323, 38 Stat 730 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000495 |
name statutized by 90 Stat 1383, "Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976" | |||
Harrison Act of 1914 | Sponsor | Harrison Act of 1914 | NO short title | Rep. Francis Burton Harrison (D-NY) | ch. 1, 38 Stat 785 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000268 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Crawford Act (Claims) (see Ominbus Claims Act) | Sponsor | Crawford Act (Claims) (see Ominbus Claims Act) | NO short title | Rep. Joel Crawford, (R-GA) | ch 140, ��_��__5, 38 Stat 996 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000891 |
nothing in statute | ||||
La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | Sponsor | La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | NO short title | Sen. Robert Marion La Follette, (R-WI) | ch 153, 38 Stat 1164 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000004 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Chamberlain-Ferris Act | Sponsor | Chamberlain-Ferris Act | NO short title | Sen. George Earle Chamberlain, (D-OR); Rep. Scott Ferris, (D-OK) | ch. 137, 39 Stat 218 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000277; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000091 |
no name in statute; railroad/telegraph land grant | ||||
Shackleford Act | Sponsor | Shackleford Act | NO short title | Rep. Dorsey William Shackleford, (D-MO) | ch 241, 39 Stat 355 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000274 |
nothing in statute; rural post roads |