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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PACE-Energy Act | Acrostic | PACE-Energy Act | "Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act" or "PACE-Energy Act" | 42 USC 15801 | 110-69, title V | 121 Stat 600 | Y | short title at beginning of title V | ||||
| Wilson Act (aka Original Packages Act) | Sponsor | Wilson Act (aka Original Packages Act) | NO short title | Sen. James Wilson (R-IA) | 27 USC 121 (note) | ch 728, 26 Stat 313 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000594 |
name not statutized; but both names are listed under short title note; see also Andrew Alexander Bruce, The Wilson Act and the Constitution, Green Bag, Vol. 21, Issue 5 (May 1909) and 21 Cong. Rec. 4954 (1890). | |||
| Dye and Chemical Control Act, 1921 | Description | Dye and Chemical Control Act, 1921 | "Dye and Chemical Control Act, 1921" | Ch. 14, 42 Stat 9 | ||||||||
| Copeland Anti-Kickback Act | Sponsor | Copeland Anti-Kickback Act | NO short title | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland (D-NY) | ch. 482, 48 Stat 948 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
nothing in statute; also listed in PNT as "Kick-Back" Racket Act | ||||
| Lloyd-La Follete Act | Sponsor | Lloyd-La Follete Act | NO short title | Rep. James Tilghman Lloyd, (D-MO); Rep. William Leroy Follette, (R-WA) | ch. 389, section 6, 37 Stat 555 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000380 |
nothing in statute -- prob was an amendment? | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930" | Ch. 846, 46 Stat 860 | ||||||||
| Lanham Public War Housing Act | Sponsor | Lanham Public War Housing Act | NO short title | Rep. Fritz Garland Lanham, (D-TX) | 42 USC 1501 (note) | ch. 862, 54 Stat 1125 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000076 |
name not statutized | |||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Extension of Appropriation Act, 1938" | Ch. 424, 50 Stat 468 | ||||||||
| Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | Undefined | Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | NO short title | Mrs. Murphy was not a real person, but a hypothetical small boarding house owner, who would be exempted from the requirements of the Civil Rights Act. The hypothetical character was created by Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont and the name caught on. | 42 USC 3603(b)(2) | 90-284, title VIII, section 803(b)(2) | 82 Stat 82 | N |
James D. Walsh, Reaching Mrs. Murphy: A Call for Repeal of the Mrs. Murphy Exemption to the Fair Housing Act, 34 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 605 (1999) at n. 3. |
name not statutized | ||
| Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998 | Honor | Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998 | "Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) died in 1996. | 17 USC 1691 | 105-385 (Title II, subtitle B) | 112 Stat 3465 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000174 |
short title; Named for Emerson in Short Title and also as name of Subtitle B |