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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997 | Sponsor | Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997 | "Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997" | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 105-85, div B, title XXIX | 111 Stat 2016 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
short title; also Section 2903 codifies the name "Sikes Act" | ||
| Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks Federal Flag Code Amendment Act of 2007 | Honor | Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks Federal Flag Code Amendment Act of 2007 | "Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks Federal Flag Code Amendment Act of 2007" | Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks was a 22 years old when he was killed by an IED in Ar Ramadi, Iraq on July 8, 2006. He had been assigned to the 54th Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer Brigade out of Bamberg. | 4 USC 1 | 110-41 | 121 Stat 233 | Y |
H. Rept. 110-139. |
Introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak; Micks was his constituent. Amends the law to allow the governor (or mayor of DC) to fly the U.S. flag at half-staff in the case of the death of active duty service members and officials, and requires flags at federal buildings within the jurisdiction to be flown at half-staff as well. | ||
| Carlisle Act (Spirits Regauging) | Sponsor | Carlisle Act (Spirits Regauging) | NO short title | Former Sen., then Treasury Secretary John Carlise | ch. 349, Section 50, 28 Stat 564 | X |
http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/pages/jgcarlisle.aspx; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000152 |
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| Smoot-Burton Act (British War Debt) | Sponsor | Smoot-Burton Act (British War Debt) | NO short title | Sen. Reed Smoot, (R-UT); Sen. Theodore Elijah Burton, (R-OH) | ch 146, 42 Stat 1325 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000644; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001159 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Reed Amendment | Sponsor | Reed Amendment | NO short title | Sen. James A. Reed (D-MO) | ch 162, section 5, 39 Stat 1069 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000118 |
nothing in statute; prohibiting mailing ads for alcohol; see The Reed "Bone-Dry" Amendment, John K. Graves, Virginia Law Review , Vol. 4, No. 8 (May, 1917), pp. 634-642 | ||||
| National Housing Act | Description | National Housing Act | "National Housing Act" | 12 USC 1701 | Ch. 847, 48 Stat 1246 | |||||||
| Lacey Act (Game) | Sponsor | Lacey Act (Game) | NO short title | Rep. John F. Lacey (R-IA), introduced bill | 16 USC 3371 | ch. 553, 31 Stat 187 | Y |
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2000/2000-98.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000010 |
Name statutized through Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 95 Stat 1073; conservation act | |||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931" | Ch. 522, 46 Stat 1552 | ||||||||
| Rankin Veterans Pension Act | Sponsor | Rankin Veterans Pension Act | NO short title | Rep. John Rankin (D-MS) | ch 402, 56 Stat 350 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000056 |
nothing in statute |