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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No entry | Description | No entry | "Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1935" | Ch. 372, 48 Stat 817 | ||||||||
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 | ||||
Hawley Act (Settlement of Claims against Germany) | Sponsor | Hawley Act (Settlement of Claims against Germany) | NO short title | Rep. Willis C. Hawley (R-OR) (1907-1932) | ch. 402, 46 Stat 500 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000379 |
nothing in statute | ||||
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 | ||||||
Gasque Spanish War Pensions Act | Sponsor | Gasque Spanish War Pensions Act | NO short title | Rep. Allard Gasque (D-SC) | ch. 268, 52 Stat 440 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000092 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Wheeler Coal-Miners Act (see Railroad Retirement Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Wheeler Coal-Miners Act (see Railroad Retirement Act of 1937) | NO short title | Sen. Burton Kendall Wheeler, (D-MT) | 45 USC 231t | 88 Stat 1305 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000330 |
Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 retdirects to Railroad Retirement Act of 1974; Seems to have initiall been 1934, then updated in 1937 then in 1974, but it's unclear where the Coal Miners come in.; 88 Stat 1305: title I short title at end "Railroad Retirement Act of 1974", still unclear where Coal Minders; "Wheeler" not statutized | |||
Jennifer's Law | Victim | Jennifer's Law | "Jennifer's Law" | Jennifer Wilmer, who went missing at age 21 in 1993 from California. | 42 USC 14661 (note) | 106-177, title II | 114 Stat 36 | Y |
http://www.jwrc.org/KeepKidsSafe/SexualOffenders101/LegislationBackgroun... |
name of title and short title; grant awards to missing person's programs | ||
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 | Victim | Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 | "Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007" | Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American young man from Chicago who was brutally tortured and murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The killers were tried but acquitted by an all-white jury. | 28 USC 509 (note) | 110-344 | 122 Stat 3934 | Y |
H.Rpt.110-200, June 19, 2007. |
title of statute and short title | ||
National Firearms Act | Description | National Firearms Act | "National Firearms Act" | 26 USC 5849 | Ch. 757, 48 Stat 1236 | |||||||
National Labor Relations Act | Description | National Labor Relations Act | "National Labor Relations Act" | Ch. 372, 49 Stat 449 |