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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military Appropriation Act, 1938 | Description | Military Appropriation Act, 1938 | "Military Appropriation Act, 1938" | Ch. 423, 50 Stat 442 | ||||||||
| Glass-Steagall Act, 1933 (see Banking Act of 1933) | Sponsor | Glass-Steagall Act, 1933 (see Banking Act of 1933) | "Banking Act of 1933" | Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) | 12 USC 227 | ch 89, 48 Stat 162 | Y |
Glass - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232; Steagall - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000820 |
short title at beginning; Statutized by 94 Stat 188, but note in code (at at 12 USC 93a) indicates that the Glass-Steagall Act referred to in text is "probably" the 1933 act not the 1932 act | |||
| Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act | Honor | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act | "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act" | Rep. Sonny Bono (CA), former entertaininer, died in a skiing accident on January 5, 1998. | 17 USC 101 (note) | 105-298, title I | 112 Stat 2827 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000622 |
short title; Bono died Jan 5, 1998 | ||
| Chimp Haven is Home Act | Institution | Chimp Haven is Home Act | "Chimp Haven is Home Act" | Chimp Haven is a "retirement community" for lab chimps. | short title see 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-170 | 121 Stat 2465 | Y | Closed a loophole in the CHIMP Act that would have allowed retired lab chimps to return to labs under some circumstances. Chimp Haven is the "retirement community" - http://www.chimphaven.org/view-news.cfm?id=38 | |||
| Tyson-Fitzgerald Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | Sponsor | Tyson-Fitzgerald Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Davis Tyson, (D-TN) | ch 735, 45 Stat 735 | |||||||
| Lea-Wagner Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Lea-Wagner Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | short title at end of title I - "Investment Company Act of 1940"; short title at end of title II - "Investment Advisers Act of 1940" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-NY) | 15 USC 80a-51 | ch 686, title I, 54 Stat 789 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
"Lea-Wagner" not statutized | |||
| Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988 | Honor | Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988 | "Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988" | Sen. Jacob K. Javits (NY), died in 1986. | 20 USC 3061 | 89-10, title IV, part B (section 4101)/100-297, title I, section 1001 | 102 Stat 237 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000064 |
short title; Javits was a Senator from NY | ||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1923" | Ch. 429, 42 Stat 1048 | ||||||||
| Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938 | Description | Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938 | "Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938" | Ch. 223, 50 Stat 169 | ||||||||
| Delaney Amendment (see Food Addititves Amendment of 1958) | Sponsor | Delaney Amendment (see Food Addititves Amendment of 1958) | "Food Additives Amendment of 1968" | Rep.James Joseph Delaney, (D-NY) | 21 USC 301 | 85-929 | 72 Stat 1784 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000211 |
short title at beginning - "Food Additives Amendment of 1958" |