The collection can be sorted by the popular name of the law, by the date of its enactment, or by descriptive category of naming convention. The categories are our attempt to bring some degree of order to the chaos.
Database of Federal Statute Names
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 | Honor/Sponsor | Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 | "Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999" | Sen. James Strom Thurmond (SC), who was Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee until 1999. | 105-261 | 112 Stat 1920 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000254 |
short title; Thurmond announced in 1997 he would step down as SASC chair, which he did in 1999 | |||
| Reading Excellence Act | Description | Reading Excellence Act | "Reading Excellence Act" | 105-277, div A, S101(f) [title VIII] | 112 Stat 2681-337, 2681-391 | CHECK | ||||||
| Lorton Technical Corrections Act of 1998 | Location | Lorton Technical Corrections Act of 1998 | "Lorton Technical Corrections Act of 1998" | Lorton Correctional Complex in Lorton, VA | 105-277, div C, title I, section 141 | 112 Stat 2681-600 | Y |
CR E1674, Statement of Rep. Thomas M. Davis, Sept. 9, 1998 |
short title | |||
| 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 | |||
| Wellton-Mohawk Transfer Act | Location | Wellton-Mohawk Transfer Act | "Wellton-Mohawk Transfer Act" | "Welton-Mohawk" is the name of the Irrigation and Drainage District. | 106-221 | 114 Stat 351 | Y | short title; | ||||
| Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000 | Location | Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000 | "Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000" | Jackson, WY | 106-272 | 114 Stat 797 | Y | short title; Jackson, WY | ||||
| Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 | Honor/Sponsor | Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 | "Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001" | Rep. Floyd D. Spence (SC), Chair of the House Armed Services Committee (106th Cong.), died in office in 2001. | 106-398, section 1 | 114 Stat 1654, 1654A-1 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000718 |
Actual act passed simply enacted HR 5408 from the previous Congress; Floyd D. Spence is short title at beginning of HR 5408, no short title to act.H185; Originally introduced by Rep. Spence without his name attached, seems to have been added in Committee. | |||
| Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act | Description | Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act | "Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act" | 106-430 | 114 Stat 1901 | N | short title at beginning of statute | |||||
| Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | Honor | Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | "Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act" | Harriet Tubman, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. | 106-516 | 114 Stat 2404 | Y | short title; directing resources to study the possible creation of a national historic site associated with Harriet Tubman | ||||
| Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act | Private Law | Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act | "Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act" | Private Bill granted permanent resident status for Chinese pro-democracy activist Wei Jinsheng. | Private Law 106-14 | Private Law | Private bill; noted here because the private laws are generally not included in the PNT |