October 26, 2012
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Beirn Community Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991 | Honor/Victim | Terry Beirn Community Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991 | long title and short title - "Terry Beirn Communited Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991" | Terry Beirn worked for amfAR and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on AIDS legislation. He died in 1991. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 102-96 | 105 Stat 481 | Y | short title and named in long title; renaming community-based clinical trial programs in Beirn's honor | |||
| Covering-in Act | Description | Covering-in Act | NO short title | ch 328, section 5, 18 Stat 110 | N | no idea what "covering-in" is | ||||||
| McNary-Mapes Amendment (Pure Foods) | Sponsor | McNary-Mapes Amendment (Pure Foods) | NO short title | Sen. Charles L. McNary (R-OR) (1917-1944); Rep. Carl Edgar Mapes (R-MI) (1913-1940) | ch 874, 46 Stat 1019 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000119 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Credit CARD Act of 2009 | Acrostic | Credit CARD Act of 2009 | "Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009" or "Credit CARD Act of 2009" | 15 USC 1601 | 111-24 | 123 Stat 1734 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Jackson-Vanik Amendment | Sponsor | Jackson-Vanik Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Henry Jackson (D-WA) and Sen. Charles Vanik (D-OH). | 93-618, title I, sections 152, 153, title IV, sections 402, 407, 409 | 88 Stat 2004, 2006, 2056, 2063, 2064 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000013; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000047 |
not in statute -- amendment included numerous sections -- read through in context to see what ties them together | |||
| Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act | Award | Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act | "Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act" | Awarding Congressional Gold Medal to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 109-287 | 120 Stat 1231 | Y | title and short title; awarding congressional gold medal | |||
| Anderson-Price Atomic Energy Damages Act | Sponsor | Anderson-Price Atomic Energy Damages Act | NO short title | Rep. Clinton Anderson (D-NM) and Rep. Charles Melvin Price (D-IL), both of whom went on to chair the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 85-256 | 71 Stat 576 | Y |
Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186; Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522 |
"Price-Anderson" statutized by reference in 102 Stat 1066 | ||
| Lea-Wheeler Transportation Act (see Transportation Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Lea-Wheeler Transportation Act (see Transportation Act of 1940) | "Transportation Act of 1940" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Burton Kendall Wheeler, (D-MT) | ch 722, 54 Stat 898 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000330 |
short title at beginning - "Transportation Act of 1940" | ||||
| Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | Sponsor | Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | NO short title | Rep. John Edward Raker, (D-CA) | 43 USC 511 | ch 190, 42 Stat 541 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000019 |
name not statutized | |||
| Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 | Victim | Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 | "Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000" | Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 106-345 | 114 Stat 1319 | Y |
Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990. |
short title and long title |