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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wagner Foreign Credits Act | Sponsor | Wagner Foreign Credits Act | NO short title | Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) | ch 185, 54 Stat 179 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
nothing in statute; actually a joint resolution | ||||
| Federal Home Loan Bank Act | Description | Federal Home Loan Bank Act | "Federal Home Loan Bank Act" | 12 USC 1421 | Ch. 522, 47 Stat 725 | |||||||
| Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States | Description | Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States | "Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States" | Ch. 699, 49 Stat 1807 | ||||||||
| Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | Sponsor | Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | NO short title | Rep. John Davenport Clarke, (R-NY); Sen. Charles Linza McNary, (R-OR) | ch. 348, 43 Stat 653 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Sponsor | Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Enacting Clause - "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" | Sen. Dale Bumpers, (D-AK). | 16 USC 1132 (note) | 98-508 | 98 Stat 2349 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001057 |
"Dale Bumpers" not statutized; named as "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" in the enacting clause | ||
| Towner-Sheppard Act (Maternity Hyiene) (see Maternity Act) | Sponsor | Towner-Sheppard Act (Maternity Hyiene) (see Maternity Act) | NO short title | Sen. Morris Sheppard, (D-TX); Rep. Horace Mann Towner, Ill, (R-IA) | ch 135, 42 Stat 224 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000325 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Wunderlich Act | Case | Wunderlich Act | NO short title | Named for U.S. v. Wunderlich (1951); Act was enacted to overturn the decision | ch 199, 68 Stat 81 | X | nothing in statute; permitting review of decisions by govt agency heads | |||||
| Borland Amendment | Sponsor | Borland Amendment | NO short title | Rep. William Patterson Borland, (D-MO) | ch 191, 38 Stat 524 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000643 |
no name in statute | ||||
| HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003 | Political Description | HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003 | "HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003" | 42 USC 1437 | 108-186 | 117 Stat 2693 | N | short title at beginning of statute; HOPE is capitalized but does not seem to be an acronym | ||||
| Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | Sponsor | Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | NO short title | Rep. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 24, 25 Stat 642 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040; see also http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00578.xml |
nothing in statute |