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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Landrum-Griffin Act (See Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | Sponsor | Landrum-Griffin 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; "Landrum-Griffin" not statutized | ||
Spence Act (Savings and Loan Holding Companies) | Sponsor | Spence Act (Savings and Loan Holding Companies) | NO short title | Rep. Brent Spence (D-NY) | 86-374 | 73 Stat 691 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000717 |
nothing in statute; amends National Housing Act | |||
White Charger Act | Political Description | White Charger Act | NO short title | Name derived from an observation that the legislation went through Congress "like a White Charger," or cavalry horse. | 86-616, section 10 | 74 Stat 395 | N |
Norman v. U. S., 392 F.2d 255, 256 (Ct. Cl. Mar. 15, 1968) disapproved of by Colm v. Kissinger, 406 F. Supp. 1250 (D.D.C. 1975) |
nothing in statute; about Army and Air Force officers, not sure what/who "White Charger" is | |||
Kerr-Mills Social Security Act (See Social Security Amendments of 1960) | Sponsor | Kerr-Mills Social Security Act (See Social Security Amendments of 1960) | "Social Security Amendments of 1960" | Sen. Robert Samuel Kerr, (D-OK); Rep. Wilbur Daigh Mills, (R-AK) | 42 USC 1305 | 86-778 | 74 Stat 924 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000144; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000778 |
short title at beginning - "Social Security Amendments of 1960"; Kerr-Mills not statutized | ||
Sikes Act | Sponsor | Sikes Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 86-797 | 74 Stat 1052 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
statutized by Sec. 2902-2903 of 111 Stat 2016 | ||
Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | Sponsor | Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | "Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961" | Sen. J. William Fulbright, (D-AK) | 22 USC 2451 | 87-256 | 75 Stat 527 | Y |
Richard D. Scarfo, The History of Title VI and Fulbright-Hayes, www.international.ucla.edu/pacrim/title6/Over2-Scarfo.pdf; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000401. |
"Fulbright-Hays" statutized by PL 102-138, 105 Stat 647 with "(commonly referred to as the 'Fulbright-Hays Act')", codified at 22 USC 1475h | ||
Talmadge-Aiken Act | Sponsor | Talmadge-Aiken Act | NO short title | Sen. Herman Eugene Talmadge, (D-GA); Sen. George David Aiken, (R-VT). | 7 USC 450 | 87-718 | 76 Stat 663 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000035; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000062 |
not statutized | ||
McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 (aka the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act) | Sponsor | McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 (aka the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act) | NO short title | Rep. Clifford McIntire (R-ME) and Sen. John Stennis (D-MS) | 16 USC 582(a) | 87-7888 | 76 Stat 806 | Y |
McIntire - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000478; Stennis - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000852 |
"McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act" statutized by reference in Sec. 1231 of 104 Stat 3543 | ||
Keogh-Smathers Act (See Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) | Sponsor | Keogh-Smathers Act (See Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) | "Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962" | Rep. Eugene James Keogh, D-NY) Sen. George Armistead Smathers, (D-FL) | 26 USC 401 | 87-792 | 76 Stat 809 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000130; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000505 |
short title at beginning - "Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962"; "Keogh-Smathers" not statutized | ||
Wright Brothers Day Act | Honor | Wright Brothers Day Act | NO short title | 88-209 | 77 Stat 402 | N | long title; designating day as Wright Bros Day |